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Title: The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Sanitation Sanitation
Publisher: Chicago : The Sanitary News
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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f the kind can occur. The water runspure from the first day, and if for any reason thepipes are emptied, and left so, there is no dan-ger of their becoming coated with rust. Anoth-er important fact is, that the water comingthrough one of these rustless pipes is just aspure as when it entered, for the water can dis- SUIT AGAINST A HEALTH OFFICER.A suit has been begun in the supreme court,by William Lockwood and Emory McClintock,rag importers of New York, against Edward B.Bartlett, Albert C. Woodruff, Henry E. Ritchie,and Health Officer William M. Smith, to recov-er $15,000 damages for losses sustained by theseizure of 3,070 bales of rags consigned to theplaintiffs, which arrived at New York on the ILLUSTRATION. The accompanying illustration shows an ap-artment house at the corner of Twenty-eighthstreet and Madison avenue, New York City.The architects are Messrs Hubert, Pirsson andCo. The building is fitted up with water-closetsfrom Myers Sanitary Depot, 54 Beekman street,New York City.
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solve none of the coating of oxide, as it alwaysdoes with lead or galvanized pipes. It is awell-known fact that water running through leadpipes is very apt to contain lead in solution, andthe continued use of such water causes leadpoisoning, for, although the amount of leaddissolved may be very small, still it accumulatesin the system, and finally causes sickness anddisease. — Mr. ya?nes S. C. Wells, in PopularScience Monthly for July. Vigilant and the Battaglia, on May 30,1885. The suit is a test case and is extremelyimportant, inasmuch as if it is decided againstthe deiendants other suits will probably be be-gun to secure to other importers indemnity forthe losses suffered by them through the decisionof Dr. Smith, that rags from foreign ports mustbe subjected to the patented process of so calleddisinfection controlled by Messrs. Bartlett,Woodruff, and Ritchie.—Medical Record. LIGHTING. The Greensburg Natural Gas and Oil com-pany, of Greensburg, Ind., has been organizedwith a cap

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