Testimony for complainant. Jersey City, April 8, 19091909 - Jersey City (N.J.) |
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Page 6249 - We are satisfied that rivers generally, those traversing agricultural as well as those draining manufacturing or urban areas, are necessarily exposed to other pollutions besides sewage, and it appears to us, therefore, that any authority taking water from such rivers for the purpose of water supply must be held to be aware of the risks to which the water is exposed, and that it should be regarded as part of the duty of that authority, systematically and thoroughly, to purify the water before distributing...
Page 6030 - Q. How long have you lived there ? — A. All my life. Q. What is your business there, Mrs.
Page 6289 - Ph.D., and the director, in a paper read before the Laboratory Section of the American Public Health Association at the 56th Annual Meeting in 1927. This paper was later published in the May, 1928, issue of The American Journal of Public Health and The Nation's Health. This work has been continued and a paper prepared for presentation on the final results of the study of over 20,000 human blood samples. In the...
Page 6334 - Yes, sir. Q. Don't you know, as a matter of fact, that...
Page 6232 - ... character rendered unobjectionable. But even this system fails in one important particular, namely, as regards disease germs. Trickling filters do not with any certainty remove disease germs, always possibly present in a sewage stream ; and for this reason it becomes necessary in many cases to disinfect somehow the effluents of such filters. That such disinfection can be done without serious difficulty and at reasonable cost has been established by tests made at the Experiment Station of the...
Page 6204 - D., professor of biology and public health and director of the sanitary research laboratory and sewage experiment station of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Page 6426 - ... construction of a sewer, the board, at the expense of the village, shall cause a map and plan of a permanent sewer system for such village to be made, with specifications of dimensions, connections and outlets or sewage disposal works. It may also include any existing sewer in the village.
Page 6479 - A. No, sir; I have not. Q. Do you know of any political assessments having been levied in that office for the past three years for party purposes ? — A.
Page 6290 - Longley and Baton (1907), from their work on Potomac water, concluded that "the value of the test with the bile lactose on unpolluted or slightly polluted water, such as we have to deal with the greater part of the time, is uniformly less than with dextrose broth, except in the larger quantities of water.
Page 6388 - You don't know whether they had keys th.it gave them accusa to this room or not ? — A. No, sir ; I do not. Q. Do you know whether the watchman had a key to give him access to this room ? — A.