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THIS is an unusually interesting treatise on a technical subject, about which so much has been already written, and the author is to be congratulated on the large amount of new information which he has succeeded in compressing into a comparatively small volume without rendering it heavy and unreadable. The book is full of facts gathered from the most varied sources, so that even the expert in this department of knowledge will find it a convenient work of reference, whilst it may also be perused with great profit by that large and ever-increasing body of laymen who, as medical men, members of local boards, landlords, and the like, are supposed to have some acquaintance with this subject, and whose responsibilities in this connection are generally out of all proportion to their knowledge. Prof. Mason has collected the results of the principal investigations bearing on the sanitary aspects of water supply, made both in Europe and America, and European readers should be specially grateful to him for the lucid and concise manner in which he has summarised and abstracted the important transatlantic labours in this direction, and the original description of which is only to be found in comparatively inaccessible and exceptionally voluminous writings of an official character. There are many points in connection with the sanitary aspects of water supply, on which, as is well known, the most conflicting opinions are prevalent amongst experts, and not the least commendable feature in this work is the impartiality and fairness with which the author has marshalled and reviewed the evidence adduced by the contending parties.
Water Supply (considered principally from a Sanitary Standpoint).
By Wm. P. Mason. Pp. 504. (New York: John Wiley and Sons. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1896.)
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Water Supply (considered principally from a Sanitary Standpoint). Nature 54, 412 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054412b0
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