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Page 271 - For nine months sewage was applied nine times a day for six days in the week, in quantity equivalent to 81,400 gallons per acre per day (or 70,000 gallons per acre per day all the year), with the result that 98 • 6 per cent.
Page 271 - ... essential character of intermittent filtration of sewage. In these, without straining the sewage sufficiently to remove even the coarser suspended particles, the slow movement of the liquid in thin films over the surface of the stones, with air in contact, caused to be removed for some months 97 per cent of the organic nitrogenous matter, a large part of which was in solution, as well as 99 per cent of the bacteria, which were of course in suspension, and enabled these organic matters to be oxidized...
Page 1 - The HONORARY SECRETARY read the notice convening the meeting, which had appeared in two of the daily Papers. The CHAIRMAN then nominated Mr.
Page 306 - TTMI in to be planted in any highway repairable by the inhabitants at large within their district, and may erect guards or fences for the protection of the same, provided that this power shall not be exercised nor shall any trees so planted be continued so as to hinder the reasonable use of the highway by the public or any person entitled to use the same, or so as to become a nuisance or injurious to...
Page 348 - Vestry do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender. The...
Page 124 - ... in the proportion of one part of cement, two parts of sand and four parts of stone or gravel, or in such proportion as to produce a maximum density.
Page 56 - Corporation may provide, sell, let on hire, and fix, set up, alter, repair, and remove lamps, meters, motors, electric lines, fittings, apparatus and things for lighting and motive power, and for all other purposes for which electric energy can or may be used, or otherwise necessary or proper for the supply, distribution, consumption, or use of electric energy, and may provide all materials and do all works necessary or proper in that behalf, and may require and take such remuneration in money or...
Page 309 - That the cremation of the dead is a rational and hygienic procedure, which is especially called for where death occurs from contagious disease.
Page 272 - however satisfactory the process may be from the chemical and practical point of view, the effluents from the bacterial beds cannot be reasonably assumed to be more safe in their possible relation to disease than raw sewage slightly diluted, but otherwise unaltered in its bacterial composition.
Page 187 - President in an extremely clear and lucid manner, and he had much pleasure in proposing that a hearty vote of thanks be accorded to him.