Refuse destructors : with results up to present time / [Charles Jones].

  • Charles Jones
Date:
1894
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    PREFACE. f IIE paper which preceded the present volume, was prepared by the Author at the request of the late Joseph Gordon, Esq., M.I.C.E., the first Engineer of the London County Council—when President of the Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers, and was read at a Meeting of the Association at Leicester, July, 1887. I he interest created in the subject was such that an edition of five hundred was published, the paper appearing again in the volume of Proceedings for 1887-8. The fact that the Author had given some years of close attention to the subject, had erected the first Destructor used in the vicinity of the Metropolis in 1883, and had been suc- cessful in 1885, in designing the “Fume Cremator,” a simple mode of dealing with the “ Fine powder,” “ Smoke,” and “ Unconsumed ” gases,' and utilising the same as heat producers, secured the kindly interest of his brother officers in England, and many in America, and the Colonies, who were concerned in the important question “ How best to deal with the growing difficulty of House Refuse?” I he valuable Report upon the subject, prepared in 1881, by W. Sedgwick Saunders, Esq, M.D, the Medical Officer of the City of London, had been, to some extent, lost sight of, at any rate no perceptible results had arisen from the preparation of the same, up to the time when the above-mentioned paper was read, and probably had
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