Pasteur filtration at Darjeeling

The Pasteur-Chamberland System of Filtration at the Darjeeling Water-Works

Darjeeling

ment. And, for the first few years, Darjeeling did make some sort of start. Houses were built, a few retired officers made their way to it, a depot for Military invalids was opened, and ? one or two Civilians and Merchants sent their families to the place. But it became evident after a time, that Darjeeling had not achieved popularity. The station increased very slowly; such institutions as are...

Ophthalmic Cases at the Darjeeling Dispensary

common occurrence in this dispensary. I gather from the records that a single case of cataract extracted in 1882 was the only ophthalmic operation of importance performed within the past ten years. This state of things is accounted for by the very large amouut of general practice devolving on the civil surgeon during, what is called, " the season " in Darjeeling, and secondly by the comparative...

Pasteur

Memoranda on Water Filtration by the Chamberland-Pasteur and Nordtmeyer-Berk Feld Systems (Illustrated)

as "tubes poreux en porcelaine degourdie;" but although the actual composition ot the material has not been revealed, it is pretty well known that it is composed of porcelain and asbestos fused at a very high temperature, and afterwards compressed into the candle shape in which it is employed for filtering purposes. This fusion and pressure produce a material in which the pores are so extremely...