The Sewage Question: Being a General Review of All Systems and Methods Hitherto Employed in Various Countries: For Draining Cities and Utilising Sewage: Treated with Reference to Public Health, Agriculture, and National Economy Generally. Also a Description of Captain Liernur's System for Daily Inoffensive Removal of Faecal Solids, Fluids, and Gases by Pneumatic Force, Combined with an Improved Method of Sewage UtilisationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1867 - 208 pages |
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Page 181 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 5 - Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad : and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon ; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee...
Page 41 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Page 15 - Minutes of Information collected with reference to works for the removal of soil, water or drainage of dwelling houses and public edifices, and for the Sewerage and cleansing of the sites of Towns.
Page 77 - Nothing will more certainly consummate the ruin of England than a scarcity of fertilisers — it means a scarcity of food. It is impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of Nature should for ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England sooner than for any other country, when, with all her wealth in gold, iron, and coal, she will be unable to buy one-thousandth part of the food which she has, during hundreds of years, thrown recklessly away.
Page 113 - Small iron reservoirs are placed under the pavement of all principal street crossings, each reservoir being connected by means of small iron pipes with the privies of the houses next to it, in such a manner that no offensive gases can escape ; in other words, from every single privy a continuous air-tight passage leads into the next subterranean reservoir without the intervention of any cesspool.
Page 53 - Bennet, a committee of the House of Commons was appointed to inquire into the state of the police of the metropolis.
Page 19 - By this arrangement, the sewage is not only at once diluted by the large volume of water in the Thames at high water, but is also carried by the ebb tide to a point in the river, 26 miles below London Bridge, and its return by the following flood tide, within the metropolitan area, is effectually prevented.
Page 70 - Dr. Klob, of Vienna, has recently, by means of a microscope of 800 to 1,000 power, discovered in the evacuations of cholera patients millions and millions of microscopic fungi, very similar in form to common mushrooms.
Page 41 - ... individually held and promulgated by several of our members, that neither the lime process nor any other existing method of precipitating sewage is likely to be commercially advantageous to those who engage in it. We consider that this is, however, not the light in which the matter should be viewed. The great problem is to get rid of sewage, advantageously to agriculture if it may be ; if not, at the least expense to the community at large. " Throughout the discussions that have hitherto occurred...