THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 97 



CONNECTICUT. 



ALTHEA SPRING. 



Misc. Div. No. 4859. 



Gases. 1 



cc 



Carbon dioxid (free) 6.9 



Carbon dioxid (set free from bicarbonate upon evaporating to dryness) 5.4 



Sanitary analysis. 



Parts per million. 



Ammonia, free Trace. 



Ammonia albuminoid 0. 02 



Nitrogen as nitrites Trace. 



Nitrogen as nitrates 5. 55 



Oxygen required .14 



Bacteriological data: 



Organisms per cc on plain agar after 48 hours at 37 C 



Organisms per cc on neutral red agar after 48 hours at 37 C 



Gas-forming organisms in 5 cc 



Gas-forming organisms in 1 cc 



Gas-forming organisms in 0.1 cc 



Gas-forming organisms in 0.01 cc 



Althea Spring is situated at Waterbury, Conn., and is owned and 

 operated by the Diamond Bottling Corporation. It was inspected 

 September 21, 1907. The water used by this company under the 

 name of Althea Spring is, however, obtained from a well, the spring 

 not yielding sufficient water to satisfy the demand. A sample of 

 the well water was taken from the storage tank for the purpose of 

 examination. Chemical analysis shows this to be a calcic, sodic, 

 bicarbonated, nitrated, sulphated water of the alkaline-saline type. 

 The hypothetical combination shows, that of the salts in solution 

 approximately 26 per cent are in the form of calcium bicarbonate, 

 26 per cent of sodium nitrate, and 21 per cent of the sulphates of cal- 

 cium and magnesium, with about 10 per cent of chlorid of magnesium. 

 No advertised analysis could be obtained for purposes of comparison. 



i At C. and 760 mm pressure in 1,000 cc of water. 

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