Lanterna Rally

Author: Massachusetts. State Health

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781230156569

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...has recently adopted and partly built a system of sewerage with an outfall into the main river below the town and just above the mouth of Little River. The towns on the river above Westfield are small, the largest having a population of but 1,318 in 1885, and none of them have a public water supply or system of sewerage. West Springfield, the largest town below Westfield, had in 1885 a population of 4,448; but most of it drains towards the Connecticut River. The following table gives statistics of drainage area, population, etc., above three points on the Westfield River. The Westfield River basin was examined by the State Board of Health in 1879, and the results of this examination were published in the supplementary report of the board for that year, pp. 3-13. The following table, showing a summary of the manufacturing establishments in the valley, is taken from page 12 of the report: --Analyses of the water of the Westfield River have not been made regularly because it was polluted so little during the time covered by these investigations that it seemed unnecessary. A single analysis was made, however, in connection with an examination of the ice supplies of the State, and is given below. The discharge of the sewage of Westfield into the river will render the water unfit for drinking at points below: --Chemical Examination of Water from the Westfield River at Agawam. Parts per 100,000. Odor, faintly mouidy. The sample was collected from the river, opposite the Ice-house of A. P. Lord, about haif a mile from the mouth of the river. The Chemical Examination Of Waters THE INTERPRETATION OF ANALYSES. By THOMAS M. DROWN, M.D., CHEMIST OF THE BOARD. THE CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF WATERS. The chemical examination of the waters of the State have.