Water and its purification : a handbook for the use of local authorities, sanitary officers, and others interested in water supply / by Samuel Rideal.

Date:
1902
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Water and its purification : a handbook for the use of local authorities, sanitary officers, and others interested in water supply / by Samuel Rideal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. Tiie purity of water supplies has always been a subject of importance, and every year it receives more and more attention. Not only in London—where the present public supply has been recently discussed by a Royal Commission and by various other bodies— but also in several provincial towns, the desirability of a public supply of greater purity and larger quantity is now under consideration ; while in the rural districts outbreaks of disease have now so fre- quently been traced directly to polluted wells, that it can safely be said that at the present time the question of universal pure drinking water is one of primary importance to all classes of the community. The closing of polluted wells, and decisions on new supplies, are now, however, in the hands of the general public, who, and their elected representatives, thus need to become acquainted with the results of the progress made during the last few years in bac- teriology and knowledge of the causation of disease. To all who are interested in the subject of Water Supply this book is meant to appeal, and it is hoped that by its perusal some insight into the methods