St 
ladle, and, after our return to London, submitted it to analysis 
with these results— 
Ferrous Sulphate 
grains 
« c 
3 *° 
Aluminium Sulphate 
5 J 
o.8 
Magnesium Chloride 
5 J 
o -5 
Sodium Chloride 
5 > 
2 7*5 
Sodium Sulphate 
5 > 
9.2 
Ferric Hydrate and 
Silica 
5 > 
1.1 
Nitrates 
J ) 
a trace 
Albuminoid Ammonia 
» °- 2 
Organic Matter 
,, 6.6 
Total Solids 
per 
gallon 
49-7 
We should like to compare these results with Dr. Hassall’s, 
but the only comparison we have been able to make is, again, by 
the courtesy of the Borough authorities with one made by Mr. 
Tanner, the Borough Bacteriologist, dated 21st June, 1912—this 
sample was marked as “ East of Boscombe Pier ” and cannot be 
identical with the lost “ beverage.” Mr. Tanner’s report defines 
the spring as “brackish” and “unsuitable for drinking purposes.” 
His figures given are: “Physical characters, slightly turbid and 
odourless. Chlorine, 22.0 parts per 100,000; Free Ammonia, nil; 
Albuminoid Ammonia, 0.012 ; and Nitrates, 0.7 part per 100,000, 
and a faint trace of Nitrite.” This reporHpractically makes the 
- Chloride salines a little more and the albuminoid matters a little 
less than given in our older report, but we must remember not 
only the time element but that the springs were on opposite slopes 
of the Boscombe Chine. Further east, on the Southbourne cliffs, 
were other ferruginous waters issuing from the cliffs. One of 
these in the summer of 1882 was in the form of an overflowing 
shallow well, and a sample taken below its undisturbed surface 
was found as a clear pale straw yellow coloured, sour and styptic 
fluid. Upon analysis the composition of this water was found so 
peculiar that we prefer to state its constituents as found, rather 
than group them as probable'salines. These were : 
Sulphuric Acid 
Iron (Ferrum) 
Sodium, as Soda Salts 
Calcium and Magnesium 
Chlorine, as Chlorides 
Aluminium, as salines 
N itrate 
Organic Matter 
Silica and insolubles 
Total Solids per gallon 266.9 
grains 
5 y 
5 5 
5 } 
*} 
? * 
yy 
TJ 
J 1 
128.7 
46.4 j 
2 9-5 
D-/ 
T 0 
6.4 
8.5 
Ferrous 13. 
Ferric 23. 
