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Table: THE WATER.Analysis, Chemical and Microscopical, of the various Waters used in Shoreditch.

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THE WATER.

Analysis, Chemical and Microscopical, of the various Waters used in Shoreditch.

SOURCE.		Date.	Total Impurity in degrees, or Total Residue in grains per gallons.	Organic matter.	Nature of living and dead vegetable and animal matter, ascertained by microscope.	Mechanical Impurity
A. Surface-Gravel or Land-drainage Wells	1. Pump opposite Shoreditch Church	9th June 1856	92.50	9.00	A few sporules and threads of fungus; many ova-cases, a bit or two of vegetable tissue, and many oxytrichæ	Trifling.
	2. Pump in Plum ber Street	10th June 1856	117.50	9.50 nitrates	Water greenish, even before evaporation; many sporules and threads of fungus; a hair or two; many fragments of dead vegetable tissue; no dia-tomaceæ, but a good many infusoria of genus oxytri-cha, of which there were two species.	Decided but not large
	3. Pump in Curtain Road, opposite Chapel Street.	10th June 1856	134.00	11.00	A good many ova-cases, in large bunches; two species of fungus; fragments of vegetable tissue; a large number of animalcules, chiefly oxytrichæ.	Not great.
	4. Pump in Curtain Road near Old St., Road	9 th June 1856	75.50	5.5	Many vorticella?, oxytri-chæ, and actinophrydes, and vibriones; myriads of sporules of fungus and thallus, or root-like portions of two species of fungus.	Not great.
B. Deep-Sand Wells.	1. MrStanbridge's	12 th June 1856	41.50	2.50	Organic debris, sporules, and a few branches of a fungus; brown ova-cases; three or four fragments of decaying vegetable tissue; a few oxytrichæ.	Very small yellowish
	2. Independent Gas Works	12th June 1856	34.00	2.00	Organic debris; a few ova-cases; a little fungus; some oxytrichæ.	Scarcely any.
C. Chalk Water, called Artesian.	1. Shoreditch Workhouse	12 th June 1856	39.00	2.00	A light film floating on the surface, consisting of organic debris; some threads of fungus; a hair of a mammal; a few fragments of vegetable tissue; a few animalcules.	A little of a yellow color.
D. Water Companies.	1. New River. 13, Devonshire Square	12th June 1856	18.50	3.00 traces of nitrates	Abounding in organic matter, dead and living; many frustules of diato-maceæ, of different species; a great many infusoria and shells of entomortraceæ.	Considerable.
	2. East London. from Mr. Roper's	12th June 1856	23.50	3.50	Organic debris; threads of fungus; a few frustules of diatomaceæ; rather many infusoria, chiefly oxytri-chæ, but two or three actinophrydes. (Not unlike contents of Thames water).	Trifling.