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The Annual Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, during the year 1874Dudfield, T. Orme (Thomas Orme)

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The Annual Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, during the year 1874

Name: The Annual Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, during the year 1874
Author: Dudfield, T. Orme (Thomas Orme)

Dudfield, T. Orme (Thomas Orme)

Public health -- England -- London

Name of Company.                   Number of occasions when living
                                        organisms were found.
                     1869.      1870.      1871.      1872.      1873.      1874.
Chelsea                    3          2          2          3          2          5
West Middlesex             0          0          0          0          0          0
Grand Junction             4          1          1          2          3          5

To Professor Frankland’s valuable report, the main features of which I
have thus summarised, are appended numerous tables setting forth, in
detail, the various information condensed in the text.  I subjoin, as of
greatest general interest, Table M, which exhibits the

                            AVERAGES FOR 1874.
    (The numbers in this Table relate to 100,000 parts of each Water.)

NAMES OF COMPANIES.     Temperature in       Total Solid     Organic Carbon.       Organic         Ammonia.      Nitrogen, as     Total Combined   Previous Sewage     Chlorine.    Total Hardness.    Proportionate
                          Centigrade          Impurity.                           Nitrogen.                      Nitrates and       Nitrogen.         or Animal                                          Amount of
                           Degrees.                                                                               Nitrites.                         Contamination.                                        organic
                                                                                                                                                     (Estimated.)                                      Elements, that
                                                                                                                                                                                                        in the Kent
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Company’s Water
                                                                                                                                                                                                       being taken as
                                                                                                                                                                                                             1.
                                                                                                       THAMES.
Chelsea                              11.8             26.46              .211              .039          .001              .155              .196              1250           1.87              19.3               3.7

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The Annual Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, during the year 1874

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