Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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It should be recollected, however, that these examinations were conducted in Winter, at the period most unfavorable to the development of animal and vegetable life."
| Degrees of Hardness. | Grains of solid matter in a gallon. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total. | Permanent. | Total. | Organic. | ||
| Water from New River Company. Examined in 1851 by Govern- ment Commission | 14.9 | 19.50 | 2.79 | ||
| The same examined in 1856, by Dr. Hofmann | 14.6 | 7.75 | 22.36 | 0.910 | |
| 12.6 | 9.25 | 21.07 | 1.015 | ||
| 13.1 | 6-5 | 21.91 | 0.98 | ||
| The same examined by myself in Winter of 1856-7 | 12.6 | 11.5 | 20.46 | 0.56 | |
| West Middlesex Company Water examined in 1851 | 14.6 | 22.67 | 2.75 | ||
| The same examined in 1856 | 13.65 | 9.4 | 21.16 | 0.819 | |
| 14.4 | 7.4 | 19.897 | 1.005 | ||
| 14.8 | 7.55 | 22.05 | 1.05 | ||
| The same examined by myself in 1857 | 13.9 | 26.18 | 0.638 | ||
| Hampstead Company's Water ex-amined in 1851 | 9.8 | 35.41 | 1.81 | ||
| In 1856, the same examined by Dr. Hofmann | 10.5 | 10.5 | 34.26 | 1.29 | |
| 5.45 | 5.40 | 30.765 | 1.45 | ||
| 4.7 | 3.9 | 57.101 | 2.24 | ||
| 6.35 | 6.35 | 22.54 | 1.575 | ||
| The same examined by myself as supplied to 95, Great College Street, in November, 1856 | 24.1 | 2.3 | |||
| Ditto supplied to Carlton Road Villas | 12.5 | 11.0 | 22.82 | 0.5 | |
| These specimens examined by myself in 1857. | Water from Workhouse Well | 3.5 | 47.21 | 0.49 | |
| Clarendon Square Well Water . | 4.2 | 3.7 | 45.27 | 0.42 | |
| Fitzroy Market Well | 42.6 | 41.0 | 275.4 | 3.64 | |
| Well on the grounds of University College | 14.8 | 13115 | 0.40 | ||
| Pump water from Grafton Street . | 3.7 | 141.82 | 2632 | ||
| Pump water from Goodge Street . | 5.2 | 264.32 | 16.7 | ||