The treatment and utilisation of sewage / by W.H. Corfield.

  • William Henry Corfield
Date:
1887
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Credit: The treatment and utilisation of sewage / by W.H. Corfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    And this with a mean temperature of 74°*42 Fahr.; yet, as usual at Belgaum, there was comparative immunity from fever, and a table is given show- ing that Belgaum has long possessed a reputation Reasons for for salubrity. The reason for this is doubtless to be sa luri y. £q^j^^ ^^ ^]^g f^^^ ^^^^ a ^]^g towu is laid out wlth somc regularity, and the principal streets are kept in good order, while the native dwellings are said to be clean inside, although the exteriors and surroundings are very foul. PEECOLATION INTO SUEROUNDING SOIL. The soakage from all these forms of open and closed cesspools, etc., into the surrounding soil has been referred to. Sometimes, as at Guildford, where they are sunk into chalk, this takes place to such an extent that they are actually stated to be dry and inoffen- sive, and the frequency with which they need to be emptied of their contents depends of course upon their size and upon the rate at which the liquid parts soak out of them. Thus in Bridport they were some- Not emp- times not emptied for a dozen years or more, at other period!°^ placcs oucc in two or three years, at uncertain intervals, at intervals of several years; at Eugby the solid parts accumulate for many years; in Penrith some cesspools have not been emptied for twenty years, even now (1866) the midden system is in favour there, and in practice, middens are kept till they are full or till it is worth a farmer's while to buy their contents. While, as a crowning success to Northamp- the pcrcolatiou system, at Northampton the cesspools on pan. ^q^q pj^g (-j■^g jjj spougy saudstouc, and were made and closed for ever; they were said to be hardly