Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Edmonton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector.

  • William Ranger
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Edmonton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    supply to a labourer's cottage will not amount to much more than Is. per annum, or less than one farthing per week for filtration. In order to insure completeness, all the service-pipes, waste and return-pipes, should be laid down under regulations as a part of one system, to be paid for by annual instalments of principal and interest, thus avoiding the necessity of an immediate outlay on the part of owners. The estimated cost for the entire apparatus to the smaller houses, including service-pipes, waste and return-pipes, with a 2-inch sub-main, a plug for cleansing court and extinguishing fires, a half-inch service-pipe to closets, with a branch and cock to sink and soil-pan, will amount to about 2/. 3*. per house, or less than 2s. 9fZ. per annum by way of improvement rate. Public Sewers.—I'he configuration of the district and general distribution of the houses are not only well adapted for a complete system of sewerage, but also particularly convenient for applying the sewage to purposes of irrigation. The main sewers may be arranged so as to branch off at the northern and eastern sides into the marshes on Ihe eastern side of the village, a disposition easily accomplished; and with properly arranged collateral sewers, in no case will it require tubular pipes exceeding 12 inches in diameter for the principal mains, and similar tubes from 6 to 9 inches diameter for the collateral sewers. But the exact position, as well as the lengths of each class of tubes, can only be determined upon an accurately made plan, showing the inclination of the ground and fall of Edmonton Cut and the River Lsa, properly matters of detail. Application of Sewage Manure.—Chemists have demon- strated the fertilizing powers of sewage as a manure; and expe- rienced agriculturists are of opinion that it may be profitably applied to irrigation and other modes of manuring land, in lieu of being wasted, and not merely wasted, but in this district allowed to remain stagnalit in ditches to generate disease of the worst description. It has been calculated, upon estimates, that sewage is susceptible of producing an income equal to ]/. per head of the population per annum ; but if only a moiely of that amount be obtained, a very large income is derivable from this one source, after defray- ^.ing the attendant expenses for the necessary works and distri- buliuL'apparatus. As regards the engineering part, this district is particularly well adapted for the purpose. The application of sewer manure has for some time past been the subject of investigation and experiment, not merely on the part of chemists but also on that of the practical ^u-mer, and the expe- rience of the latter has established the fact of its being one of the best known fertilizers; and it has, moreover, been shown that the most profitable mode of applying it is in the liquid form. Mr.