Chemical and medical reports and evidence of the quality of the Loch Katrine water / Glasgow Corporation Water-works.

  • Glasgow (Scotland). Corporation.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Chemical and medical reports and evidence of the quality of the Loch Katrine water / Glasgow Corporation Water-works. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he has never known a case of injury arising from the supply of the water. At Blackburn, where the action of the water is less powerful though still considerable, Mr. Dugdale, an eminent surgeon in the town, now Mayor of the Borough, and who has been Chairman ot the Water Company since its formation in 1844, expresses the strongest opinion of the perfect safety with which the water has been supplied to the inhabitants through lead pipes, and of the great advantage which has resulted from its use. At Sheffield, the water, which has been supplied to the in- habitants for nearly thirty years, acts upon lead nearly as energetically as that of Loch Katrine. It is almost uniformly delivered into leaden cisterns, being conveyed to the cistern, and from thence to the taps for domestic use, in leaden pipes. Mr. Gunson, the manager of the works, and who has held that situation since their establishment, receives the water he uses in the way above described, and states it to be the universal system of the town. He was perfectly astonished when he saw the effect upon the water by a similar experiment to that of Dr. Penny, never having heard of the slightest injury or incon- venience arising from its use. Mr. Wright, the medical gentle- man who has attended his family, receives his own supply of water in the same way, and is a surgeon in extensive practice, connected with all the medical institutions of the town. He has never heard of a case of lead-poisoning connected with the supply of the water through lead, nor of any injurious effect whatever. The information from many other places is to the same effect. Amongst the more important, is that contained in the “ Report of the Water Commissioners of Boston, U.S., on the Material best adapted for Distribution Water-Pipes; and on the most economical mode of introducing Water into Private Plouses,” published in Boston in 1848. The substance ot this Report will appear in an Appendix.