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Hanover Square 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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APPENDIX. No. I.
WATER.

Table: The Water supplied by the Chelsea Company, and taken from the main at Chapel-street, Belgrave-square—

The Water supplied by the Chelsea Company, and taken from the main at Chapel-street, Belgrave-square—

1864.Total Impurity in grains per gallon.Organic ditto.
April 1720.081.36
May 1719.041.68
June 1717.021.13

Table: PUMP WATER.An analysis has been made of the water yielded by five pumps:—

PUMP WATER.

An analysis has been made of the water yielded by five pumps:—

Total Impurity in grains per gallon.Organio ditto.Inorgamc, Earthy, Ac.Nitric Acid.
1. Pump in Bell-yard49.338.1041.23Slight trace.
2. Do. Robson's.yard, Chapel.st.44.478.2530.22Ditto.
3. Do. Adam's.mews92.8331.0800.85More.
4. Do. Swan-passage111.4424.3081.13Ditto.
5. Do. Private House, Park-lane, near Hamilton-place48.977.5041.41None.

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These analyses, especially if compared with those contained
in a former Report, show some interesting facts. The
pump in Bell-yard, in Robson's-yard, Chapel-street, and in
the House in Park-lane, yielded water pretty uniform in quality,
and containing about 8 grains of "organic matter" per
gallon, i.e., about six times as much as is contained in the
water yielded by the water companies. But the water from
the pump in Adam's-mews, and that in Swan-passage, contained
an enormous quantity, and may fairly be called " filtered
sewage." It is perfectly certain that a sewer in Bell-yard
was lately broken in, and that the sewage leaked into the
adjoining cellar. It is diflicult to conceive that some of it
did not leak into the Bell-yard well; but if that escaped, the
well in Swan-passage may have been enriched by some of it.
As for the pump-well in Adam's-mews, at the rear of the