Proposed Plan for a Sewerage System, and for the Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Providence

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Providence Press Company, 1884 - 146 pages
 

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Page 74 - The right way to dispose of town sewage is to apply it continuously to land, and it is only by such application that the pollution of rivers can be avoided.
Page 75 - Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (River Thames).
Page 10 - ... per cent. It may, therefore, be roughly estimated that about a quarter of a million of persons were saved from death in the ten years 1871-80, who would have died if the death-rate had been the same as in the previous thirty years.
Page v - To the Honorable the City Council of the City of Providence: GENTLEMEN...
Page 74 - Finally, on the basis of the above conclusions, we further beg leave to express to your Lordships that, in our judgment, the following two principles are established for legislative application : — " First, that wherever rivers are polluted by a discharge of town sewage into them, the towns may reasonably be required to desist from causing that public nuisance. "Second, that where town populations are injured or endangered in health by a retention of cesspool matter among them, the towns may reasonably...
Page 77 - ... 4. That most rivers and streams are polluted by a discharge into them of crude sewage, which practice is highly objectionable. "5. That so far as we have been able to ascertain, none of the existing modes of treating town sewage, by deposition and by chemicals in tanks, appear to effect much change beyond the separation of the solids and the clarification of the liquids.
Page 75 - ... the sewage of the cities and towns of England, with a view to the reduction of local taxation and the benefit of agriculture.
Page 10 - During the decade from 1861 to 187C, there appeared to be no gain from the outlay on sanitary works or on sanitary service in England and Wales; but since then the service appears to have made an effective start, and the pecuniary gain may be thus stated : Under the inquiry as to interments, the cost of funerals — all round — was ascertained to be £5 each.
Page 77 - That, so far as our examinations extend, none of the manufactured manures made by manipulating town's refuse, with or without chemicals, pay the contingent costs of such modes of treatment ; neither has any mode of dealing separately with excreta, so as to defray the cost of collection and preparation by a sale of the manure, been brought under our notice." 7. " That town sewage can best and most cheaply be disposed of and purified by the process of land irrigation for agricultural purposes...
Page 56 - ... produce a very large volume of air. and to keep up a velocity sufficient to ventilate all the branch sewers, and the drag would consequently be so great through the main that it would force open any house-drain traps or water traps we could form before it would influence the remote branches ; but, putting those difficulties out of the question which appeared to us insuperable, we found that the consumption of coal to extract the required quantity of air, supposing that the sewers could be laid...

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