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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southwark 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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(b) On account of their hardness content and alkaline reaction the Board's river
and well water supplies are not considered to be plumbo-solvent. It should,
however, be appreciated that all types of water pick up varying amounts of
metal from the material of water piping particularly when it is newly
installed; this applies to copper, zinc, iron and also to lead. Surveys carried
out between 1966 and 1968 on analyses of water from consumers' premises
confirmed this statement.
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