“State Board of
Health Demonstrates Chlorinator,” from the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, March 10,
1907; S.H. Farabee, editor.
For the purpose of
demonstrating the method of water purification by means of liquid chlorine, the
most modern and scientific method of sterilizing water now in use, the state
board of health has acquired a portable chlorinator for making the
demonstrations, and makes an announcement that it will be glad to illustrate
the working of the apparatus or lend it for testing purposes or in emergency
cases to municipal authorities interested in having pure water.
The advantages
claimed for the liquid chlorine method over other methods of sterilizing water
are that besides being thoroughly efficient as a sterilizing agent, it produces
no tastes or odor, it is more reliable than other sterilizing agents and
prevents all after-growth subsequent to sterilization.
As to the efficiency
of this device, the water department of New York City, after careful
investigation, decided to change from the hyprochlorite method to the chlorine
method with the result that about 525,000,000 gallons daily are being
sterilized. At least one town in this state, Wilmington, uses this method and
makes the statement that the results are satisfactory.
“The value of a
pure water supply,” says the state board of health, “is a sort of a life
insurance for the people, the value of which has been estimated to be 10 cents
per capita for every unit decreased in the typhoid fever death rate which it
brings about. On the other hand, for every death of typhoid that can be shown
to be due to a polluted water supply, the same is charged with the average
value of a productive life which is $5,000. But the value of a good water
supply is not only a reduced typhoid rate. Other diseases, particularly
diarrheal diseases of children, are also affected by it.”
No comments:
Post a Comment