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Proceedings Before the Metropolitan Board of Health on the Application of the Metropolitan Gas Light Co. for a Modification of the Order of the
Proceedings Before the Metropolitan Board of Health on the Application of the Metropolitan Gas Light Co for a Modification of the Order of the Author:New York Title: Proceedings Before the Metropolitan Board of Health on the Application of the Metropolitan Gas Light Co. for a Modification of the Order of the Board, Concerning the Manufacture of Gas at the Foot of West 42nd Street, New York General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Evening Post Steam Pr... more »esses Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 11 gas, and I have mentioned only those most important, that I should have to refer to my evidence to say which I did mention. I do not'recall any important constituent that I should like to add to this list. Q. There are none that you desire to add to it ? A. No. Q. Did] you regard carbolic acid, or phenol, as im- portant? A. I did not. Q. Is it a constituent of crude gas ? 12 A. There are minute traces of it in the crude gas. Q. Have you visited the Manhattan worts? A. I have. Q. Did you not then discover the presence of phenol -- indications of it? A. There was a slight odor which might be called that, and there might be a dozen other things -- not with certainty. Q. "Where did you discover that ? A. I may say that there was a substance there that one 13 of my companions f pronounced to be phenol, though I did not feel certain about it. It was discovered about the spent lime which had been used to purify the air drawn from the main purifiers ; also in the air which the Manhattan Company was allowing to pass into the atmosphere, in which we also discovered sulphuretted hydrogen. Q. When you say in your testimony that the waste lime contains but small quantities of ammonia, do you in- jlude that contained in sulphide of ammonium or only free ammonia ? A. I include ammonia in all forms. Q. Is there not ...« less