Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria .. . ^ to us from that whichhas hitherto been a land of silence, and they shed a stronglight on what was heretofore a region of darkness, showingus the forms of that shadowy host who bring up the rear inthe onward march, whereof we now are leading the at least it appears to me. N 2. 180 Air and Water Poisoning Art. LIV.—Air and Water Poisoning in Melbourne,By Sydney Gibbons, , etc. [Eead 22nd November, 1869.] some important subjects con-nected with the public healthas it is affected by sewage andwater supply, and by t
Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria .. . ^ to us from that whichhas hitherto been a land of silence, and they shed a stronglight on what was heretofore a region of darkness, showingus the forms of that shadowy host who bring up the rear inthe onward march, whereof we now are leading the at least it appears to me. N 2. 180 Air and Water Poisoning Art. LIV.—Air and Water Poisoning in Melbourne,By Sydney Gibbons, , etc. [Eead 22nd November, 1869.] some important subjects con-nected with the public healthas it is affected by sewage andwater supply, and by theireffect on the atmosphere, I havemade some observations andexperiments, which I propose tolay before the Society in thepresent paper. The subjectsare so intimately connected,that, divide them how we will,the divisions will have much in common, and it will not beeasy to avoid a little iteration. Perhaps it will be best toadopt the two headings already noted, viz. : Sewage andwater supply, as main lines, and to digress from the one tothe other as occasion may require. PART I. CITY SEWAGE. During the last year (1868), when the city health officer (towhose activity we are already so much indebted) wasexerting himself to reduce in some degree the evils to whichwe are exposed by our system, or rather no-system ofdisposing of sewage, he found tha
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