Sewer ventilation and sewage treatment / [R. Harris Reeves].

  • Reeves, R. Harris.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Sewer ventilation and sewage treatment / [R. Harris Reeves]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with regard to the direction of flow of the sewer air, its temperature with .that of the sewage, and the external air. These have been carried on for some months, and will be continued for a sufficiently long period to enable me to throw some light upon the subject, when the results will be made public. In the meantime I will merely say that Mr. Phillips’s con- clusions as to effect of temperature are entirely erroneous, so far as the Wimbledon sewers are concerned, and these do not differ from other sewers in any essential particulars, so far as I am aware. W. Santo Crimp. Wimbledon, April 30, 1888. Sir,—In the article on the above subject which appeared in your last issue [p. 296], Mr. John Phillips, C.E., states that the “complete sanitary ventilation of servers has never yet been properly accomplished.” I would wish to state a few facts as to what has come under my attention in connexion with this important subject, not with any idea of controverting Mr. Phillips’s theory, but from a sense of fairness to the originator of a system of sewer ventilation tried with success in Tottenham. In the early part of last year some of the ventilating man- holes in the district gave considerable trouble, and complaints of the emission of noxious gases were numerous. As a remedy, several upcast shafts were erected, but these in most cases proved ineffectual. Indeed, I have frequently noticed that the shaft acted as the inlet and the grating in the road as the outlet. Eventually the system of sewer ventilation and deodorising of sewer gas, invented by Mr. R. Plarris Reeves, was brought under the notice of the Local Board, and it was decided to obtain the assistance of that gentleman. After making
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