Text-book of hygiene; a comprehensive treatise on the principles and practice of preventive medicine from an American stand-point . er vessels ofthe mercantile marine are at present supplied with distillers for theproduction of drinking-water from sea-water, they cannot be said tobe entirely independent of the water-supplies from natural sourceson shore. Circumstances arise on every vessel, and often at that,under which the water-tanks are filled with water from shore, andnaval sanitarians, therefore, cannot yet afford to disregard the generalhygiene of water-supplies from all sources. Since,
Text-book of hygiene; a comprehensive treatise on the principles and practice of preventive medicine from an American stand-point . er vessels ofthe mercantile marine are at present supplied with distillers for theproduction of drinking-water from sea-water, they cannot be said tobe entirely independent of the water-supplies from natural sourceson shore. Circumstances arise on every vessel, and often at that,under which the water-tanks are filled with water from shore, andnaval sanitarians, therefore, cannot yet afford to disregard the generalhygiene of water-supplies from all sources. Since, however, this sub-ject is treated of in another part of this work, the supply of drinking-water from sea-water, as usually done on board ships, will alone bespoken of in this connection. On board all of the vessels of the United States Navy the so-called United States Standard Evaporator is used (see Fig. 35).This evaporator is made of several sizes, the largest of which pos-sesses a productive capacity of 10,000 gallons of distilled water perdiem. The general design is identical for all sizes. The apparatus WATER-SUPPLY. 333. Oetaa+xj ^ Ffire/1 ¥ m P%
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