Do Fishes Feed on Hypochlorite?

Do Fishes Feed on Hypochlorite?

Apparently the fish that live in Lake Michigan have been fattening at the public expense on the hypochlorite that has been injected into its waters by Water Works Engineer Allen, of Waukegan, Ill. He found that there were times when 7 pounds of the germicide to 1,000,000 gallons of water were enough to answer the purifying purposes, while on other occasions 10 pounds did not suffice. On making inquiries, he found front the local fishermen that, whereas the fish a day or two before had been inshore in shoals, two days afterwards they had gone out much further into the lake. As this had happened more than once, and on each occasion Engineer Allen had been obliged to increase the hypochlorite dosage from 7 to 10 pounds when the fish were just off shore, and to redyce it from 10 to 7 pounds when they were very much further out, he has come to the not unnatural conclusion either that the fish feed on the purifying agent to such an extent as to require its quantity to be increased by 3 pounds when they are inshore or that their presence or absence affects the purity of the water. The question is an interesting one; who shall solve the problem, or has any other water works official working on the Great Lakes noticed a similar coincidence?

Apparently the fish that live in Lake Michigan have been fattening at the public expense on the hypochlorite that has been injected into its waters by Water Works Engineer Allen, of Waukegan, Ill. He found that there were times when 7 pounds of the germicide to 1,000,000 gallons of water were enough to answer the purifying purposes, while on other occasions 10 pounds did not suffice. On making inquiries, he found front the local fishermen that, whereas the fish a day or two before had been inshore in shoals, two days afterwards they had gone out much further into the lake. As this had happened more than once, and on each occasion Engineer Allen had been obliged to increase the hypochlorite dosage from 7 to 10 pounds when the fish were just off shore, and to redyce it from 10 to 7 pounds when they were very much further out, he has come to the not unnatural conclusion either that the fish feed on the purifying agent to such an extent as to require its quantity to be increased by 3 pounds when they are inshore or that their presence or absence affects the purity of the water. The question is an interesting one; who shall solve the problem, or has any other water works official working on the Great Lakes noticed a similar coincidence?