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Page 256 - April, we could see perhaps a dozen columns of smoke rising over the woods in different places where the work was going on. After the sap had been collected and boiled for three or four days, the time came when the thickening liquid was made to pass into the form of sugar. This was when the...
Page 189 - No sewage, drainage or refuse or polluting matter, of such kind and amount as either by itself or in connection with other matter will corrupt or impair the quality of the water...
Page 189 - ... of the pollution of such waters, and for removal of substances and causes of every kind which may be liable to cause pollution thereof, in order to protect and develop the rights and property of the Commonwealth therein and to protect the public health. It shall have authority to conduct experiments to determine the best practicable methods of purification of drainage and sewage or disposal of the same.
Page 297 - With physical culture and improvement there came a mental awakening, a cerebral activity never before manifested in their prison life. Their faces parted with the dull and stolid look they had in the beginning, assuming a more intelligent expression while the eye gained a brightness and clearness that before was conspicuous by its absence.
Page 186 - Pensacola, or New Orleans, once in so many years, compared with the totality of the destruction caused by the steady progress of this general and ever-present scourge ? Thirty thousand people die of typhoid fever annually in the United States of America, and Vienna lowered her losses by this fever from...
Page 189 - ... or sewerage, as to the most appropriate source of supply, the best practicable method of assuring the purity thereof or of disposing of their...
Page 178 - ... without hardening them or leaving in them any excess of the precipitant. The Mississippi water at New Orleans can be thus clarified by a rest of eight hours in the reservoir at an expense of one cent for every thousand gallons. Mr. Gardner's object at the present time is to procure a ^cheaper iron solution. In the efforts to attain to a prompt and efficient method of purifying water by sedimentation or filtration, with or without the use of precipitants, it is of the utmost importance that the...
Page 8 - In the months of March and October, annually, each and every person who is employed in a paper mill, shall be examined by the local board of health as to whether he or she is successfully and sufficiently protected by vaccination and the local board of health shall in all cases be the judges of the sufficiency of the protection by vaccination.
Page 8 - The owner, agent, and superintendent in every paper mill where rags are used shall every year, in the months of February and September, make out and deliver to the local board of health...
Page 185 - ... nitrification of the latter, — operate in the current of a running stream ; but these account for but a small proportion of the seeming purification, and there is no ground for supposing that the infectious principle of typhoid fever is given up to the action of these purifying agencies. We acknowledge that typhoid fever is propagated by an infected sewage in a well-water when all organic trace of the sewage has disappeared through the instrumentality of the agencies referred to. There are...