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acre daily adulterated Albert ALBUMINOID ALBUMINOID AMMONIA AMMONIA analyses antitoxin Arthur August bacteria Board has caused Board of Health Brockton Brook cent Charles Chlorine coagulant per gallon Color constructed death-rate deaths diphtheria discharged disease disposal Edward effluent Effluent of Filter examined feet filter beds filtration area flow of sewage following table Framingham Francis Frank Frederick free ammonia gallons per acre gallons per day Gardner George ground water Henry Hopedale Housatonic River inches James John Joseph July June main sewer Merrimack River milk Nashua River Nitrates NITROGEN Number of samples operation organic matter outlet Oxygen Consumed pipe pollution Pond portion Precipitate present proposed pumping station Purification effected quantity of sewage removed reservoir RESIDUE ON EVAPORA samples collected sand scarlet fever sewage applied sewerage sewers slight sludge smallpox solid matter spring stream Sudbury River surface Thomas tion Total typhoid fever underdrains water-shed Westborough William
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Page 498 - ... (0.5) per cent of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid, and not more than ten (10) per cent of crude fiber.
Page 499 - ... per cent of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid, and not more than five (5) per cent of crude fiber. One hundred parts of the nonvolatile ether extract contain not less than four (4) parts of nitrogen.
Page 23 - ... the board shall not prohibit the cultivation and use of the soil in the ordinary methods of agriculture if no human excrement is used thereon.
Page 560 - In each city and town having a population of more than five thousand inhabitants, as determined by the last census, at least one member of said board shall be a physician, and the board shall send an annual report of the deaths in such town to the State Board of Health.
Page 13 - Commonwealth a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the governor and council, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.
Page 103 - The Board has caused the locality to be examined by one of its engineers and has considered...
Page 3 - It shall also consult with and advise persons engaged or intending to engage in any manufacturing or other business whose drainage or sewage may tend to pollute any inland water as to the best method of preventing such pollution, and it may conduct experiments to determine the best methods of the purification or disposal of drainage or sewage.
Page 270 - No. 70, containing 4^2 feet in depth of sand of an effective size of 0.23 millimeter...
Page 213 - The flow of these streams, particularly the Sudbury and the south branch of the Nashua, serves to indicate the flow of other streams in eastern Massachusetts. The...
Page 490 - ... after stirring pour the mixture while warm upon a wet filter, using to advantage a hot funnel. If annatto is present the filter will absorb the color so that when the fat is washed off by a gentle stream of water the paper will be dyed straw color. It is well to pass the warm, alkaline filtrate two or three times through the fat on the filter to insure removal of the color. If, after drying the filter, the color turns pink on application of a drop of stannous chlorid solution the presence of...