. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. th St. Paul street byJohn OConnor.—The board of education aretrying to get an appropriation of $100,000, foradditions to school buildings. Boston, Mass.— O. M. Wentworth contem-plates the erection of an aparrment house onWestland near Huntington avenue. It will beof brick and stone, 50x43x93, arranged for eightfamilies, and heated by steam.—A new buildingfor mechanical purposes is to be built on Med-ford near Charlestown street, by the Torreyheirs. It will be of granite and brick, five sto-ries, 62x6
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. th St. Paul street byJohn OConnor.—The board of education aretrying to get an appropriation of $100,000, foradditions to school buildings. Boston, Mass.— O. M. Wentworth contem-plates the erection of an aparrment house onWestland near Huntington avenue. It will beof brick and stone, 50x43x93, arranged for eightfamilies, and heated by steam.—A new buildingfor mechanical purposes is to be built on Med-ford near Charlestown street, by the Torreyheirs. It will be of granite and brick, five sto-ries, 62x67, flat roof, one elevator, steam heat. Grand Rapids, Mich.—A building 150x180feet in area, of iron, stone, brick and cement,absolutely fire-proof and incombustible, will re-place that portion of the Grand Rapids & In-diana car works burned at Grand Rapids lastwinter. The walls will be of brick and stone,the window and door frames, doors and roof willbe of iron, and the floor cement. A fire-proofbrick magazine for the storage of oils, paints, April 17, 1886.] THE SANITARY Fig. 1. FILTRATION OF WATER. The following article on Filtration of Waterappeared in La Nature in its edition for Dec. 5. 1885. It will beread with interest inview of the anxietywhich many peoplehave over the purityof the water which isfurnished to most ofour cities. % It is hardly possi-ble to pay sufficientattention to the pur-ity of our drinking-water. Mr. Pasteurand many other sav-ants have d e m onsrtated that the waters not only the ve-hicle ofall epidemics,but, besides, throughthe organic mattersit contains, it can bethe origin of feversand other diseases,as well as producingdecay of the teethwith which the population in the neighborhoods-of lakes and certain still waters are often principal remedy successfully used infighting against these miserable influences is tosubmit the waters to ebullition, or to boil it recent discoveries of M. Pasteur enableus to replace t
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