Rural Water Supplies and their Purification

Abstract

THE private isolated water supplies of the scattered rural population are often dangerously polluted; and there are many who would be glad to do what is possible to remedy matters, if they were informed of the dangers they run and the best practical means of escaping from them. But this small work will not prove of great value to the majority of dwellers in rural districts, whose need is for some simple, detailed expedients for easily reducing the risk and inconvenience attendant upon a water supply which is unsuitable from the point of view of either quality or quantity (or, maybe, both); for the book is almost entirely devoted to the means available for purification by chemical methods. These methods are the least easy of adoption of all known methods of guarding against water-borne disease in the dwelling, where even simple domestic filters so rarely receive the comparatively little attention they require to maintain satisfactory working conditions.

Rural Water Supplies and their Purification.

By Dr. A. C. Houston. Pp. xv + 136. (London: John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., 1918.) Price 7s. 6d. net.