Ten years' practical experience in sewage treatment : a contribution to the conference held at the Society of Arts, on the 15th and 16th of May, 1879 / by Fritz Hille.

  • Hillé, Fritz.
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[1879]
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Credit: Ten years' practical experience in sewage treatment : a contribution to the conference held at the Society of Arts, on the 15th and 16th of May, 1879 / by Fritz Hille. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The cost of chemicals used from the 17th of February, 1876, to the 17th of February, 1877, for treating daily from one million and a half to two million gallons of notoriously bad Sewage, amounted to For 353 cubic yards of Lime at 13/6 per cubic yard £238 5 6 For about 1,000 gallons of Tar ... ••• ••• 25 For Chemical Salts ... £471 5 6 SOUTHBOROUGH. The analysis and letter underneath speak for the results obtained at Southborough. South London Central Laboratory, Kennington Cross, London, S.E. Analysis of Local Board, by Residue Chlorine Total hardness Permanent Hardness Free ammonia Albuminoid ammonia 16*10 \ 6-40 [ grahlS per gaU°n' 6-40 ) o'. 07 | Parts Per ^kon. 13th February, 1877. a sample of water received from Southborough G. Delves, Esq., on the 9th February, 1877. Remarks. Considered as an effluent water this sample is sufficiently piu*e to be turned into a running stream. (Signed) JOHN MUTER, Public Analyst for Lambeth, Ac. W. BAXTER, Secretary. [Copy.] Southborough Local Board, 8th August, 1878. In reply to your letter of the 7th ult., I am instructed to inform you that for some years past the Southborough Local Board have experienced great difficulty in the treatment of the Sewage of their district, so as to prevent any nuisance to the stream into which the effluent water runs, and have tried numerous systems of purification, all of which turned out more or less failures.