Chemical analysis forms, 1940-[ongoing].

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Chemical analysis forms, 1940-[ongoing].

As part of their mandate to protect drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, the Division of Water Supply and its predecessors have required periodic testing of water sources to detect potential contamination, as recorded in this series.

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Lawrence Experiment Station (Mass.)

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Massachusetts. Division of Environmental Health.

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Massachusetts. Division of Sanitary Engineering.

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Massachusetts. Division of Water Supply

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State oversight of public drinking water supplies and systems has been exercised successively by the following agencies: State Board of Health (1869-1879), State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879-1886), and State Board of Health (1886-1914); also State Dept. of Health (1914-1919) and Dept. of Public Health (1919-1975), specifically from 1914 under the Division of Sanitary Engineering, renamed Division of Environmental Health in 1969 (including its Bureau of Water Supply and Water Qualit...