| Luke Herbert - 1832 - 372 Seiten
...the health ; but as it approaches the metropolis, it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, winch renders it disgusting to the senses, and improper to be employed in the preparation of food, The greatest part of this additional matter appears to be only mechanically suspended iu it, and separates... | |
| John Hogg (M.D.) - 1837 - 420 Seiten
...16,000 South London 1,000,000 10,000 South wark 720,000 7,000 the Thames approaches the metropolis, it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, which renders...improper to be employed in the preparation of food. It is further mentioned in this report, that from various enquiries respecting the state, purity, and... | |
| 1840 - 582 Seiten
...unfit for domestic purposes, or to be injurious to health ; but as it approaches the metropolis it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth which renders...improper to be employed in the preparation of food."* The evidence, or rather the facts which were elicited by this commission, appear so important in a... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1842 - 632 Seiten
...impotable to preserve live fish for any length of time in water from the ¡ame district." Dr. Bostock. — "It appears that the water of the Thames, as it approaches...containing water taken from the same source after having been filtered : the former exhibited the nmial appearance, while the latter teat perfectly free... | |
| John Loude Tabberner - 1847 - 68 Seiten
...unfit for domestic purposes, or to be injurious to the health ; but as it approaches the metropolis it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, which renders it DISGUSTING TO TO THE SENSES AND IMPROPER TO BE EMPLOYED IN TUB PEEPAEATION OF FOOD." Dr. Paris, in his evidence,... | |
| charles black - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...free from extraneous matter, may fairly be called pure; but, ' as it approaches the metropolis, it becomes loaded ' with a quantity of filth which renders...improper to be employed in the preparation of food.' They expressed, in gentle phrase, their opinion, that this water ' can' not, even when clarified by... | |
| 1880 - 576 Seiten
...such : ' but as it approached the metropolis it became loaded with a quantity of filth which rendered it disgusting to the senses and improper to be employed in the preparation of food.' The companies, alarmed at the tenour of this report, began a large system of filtration, which is continued... | |
| Frederick Clifford - 1887 - 1008 Seiten
...Thames was " in a state of considerable purity." He added : — " But as it approaches the metropolis it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, which renders...improper to be employed in the preparation of food." With this testimony before them, the Commissioners came to some very mild conclusions. During the last... | |
| George Laurence Gomme - 1898 - 266 Seiten
...therein described was as follows: — "As it" (the water of the Thames) "approaches the Metropolis, it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, which renders...improper to be employed in the preparation of food. The greatest part of this additional matter appears to be. only mechanically suspended in it, and separates... | |
| George Laurence Gomme - 1898 - 276 Seiten
...improved their services generally. " As it" (the water of the Thames) "approaches the Metropolis, it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, which renders...disgusting to the senses, and improper to be employed 1n the preparation of food. The greatest part of this additional matter appears to be only mechanically... | |
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