 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...as the result of many analyses of several river waters, including that of the Thames, they believe that " there is no river in the United Kingdom long enough to secure the oxidation and destruction of any sewage which may be discharged into it, even at its source."... | |
 | Registrar-general - 1870 - 526 pages
...impossible to say how far such water must flow before the sewage matter becomes thoroughly oxidized. It will be safe to infer, however, from the above...to effect the destruction of sewage by oxidation." The intermittent system of distribution still prevails in London, although the Royal Commission on... | |
 | 1870 - 500 pages
...impossible to say how far such water must flow before the sewage matter becomes thoroughly oxidized. It will be safe to infer, however, from the above...to effect the destruction of sewage by oxidation." The purification of water of its organic contaminations can only be reliably effected by means of chemical... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...impossible to say how far such water must flow before the sewage matter becomes thoroughly oxidized. It will be safe to infer, however, from the above...to effect the destruction of sewage by oxidation." The pollutions of the rivers by sewage and by various sorts of manufacturing refuse is thoroughly discussed,... | |
 | 1871 - 398 pages
...impossible to say how far such water must flow before the sewage matter becomes thoroughly oxidized. It will be safe to infer, however, from the above...to effect the destruction of sewage by oxidation." The pollutions of the rivers by sewage and by various sorts of manufacturing refuse is thoroughly discussed,... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...impossible to say how far such water must flow before the sewage matter becomes thoroughly oxidized. It will be safe to infer, however, from the above...to effect the destruction of sewage by oxidation." Having in view, at present, only the chief sources of pollution in the basins of the Mersey and Ribble,... | |
 | Reports on the progress of practical and scientific medicine - 1871 - 734 pages
...sewage matter becomes thoroughly oxidised. It will be safe to infer, however, from the results obtained, that there is no river in the United Kingdom long...to effect the destruction of sewage by oxidation." r . The result of the enquiries of the Commissioners into the influence of river pollution on health... | |
 | Ulick Ralph Burke - 1872 - 78 pages
...oxidation in a flow of 168 miles at a rate of one mile an hour [1 RPC, 21]. It is evident therefore that there is no river in the United Kingdom long...to effect the destruction of sewage by oxidation. The destruction of the fish forms a very important consideration in this sewage pollution of rivers,... | |
 | 1874 - 164 pages
...as to make it safe for drinking." And further, in reference to the self-purification of rivers: — "There is no river in the United Kingdom long enough to effect the destruction of sewage by oxydation." These are important words, and I give them emphasis because they were adopted only afte.r... | |
 | Society of Engineers (London, England) - 1874 - 158 pages
...as to make it safe for drinking." And further, in reference to the self-purification of rivers: — "There is no river in the United Kingdom long enough to effect the destruction of sewage by oxydation." These are important words, and I give them emphasis because they were adopted only after... | |
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... the oxidation of the organic matter in sewage proceeds with extreme slowness, even when the sewage is mixed with a large volume of unpolluted water, and that it is impossible to say how far such water must flow before the sewage matter becomes thoroughly... 
