The sewage problem, a review of the evidence collected by the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal.

  • Martin, Arthur J. (Arthur John), 1864-
Date:
1905
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Credit: The sewage problem, a review of the evidence collected by the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Efficiency of Land Tkeatment—continued. Since the publication, in 1884, of the report of the Metro- politan Sewage Commission, ' = The (Local Government) Board have regarded them- selves as justified, save in exceptional cases, in requiring that any scheme of sewage disposal for which money is to be borrowed with their sanction should provide for the applica- tion of the sewage or effluent to an adequate area of suitable land before its discharge into a stream. [Adrian, 107.] It may be noted here that land treatment is not insisted on by the Local Government Board for Scotland. [Murray, 208, 210.] The practice of the Irish Board, however, is modelled on that of the Department for England. [Deane, 243.] Eelation oe Ahea to Flow. There is no question in connection with the purification of sewage which needs more careful consideration than that of the area of land which is required to deal with a given volume of sewage. A correct judgment on this point can only be arrived at by the aid of wide and prolonged experience, with full regard to the nature of the sewage and the physical and other character- istics of the land. The statistics collected by the Commissioners of the quantity of sewage per acre dealt with on different farms together with the opinions which they have elicited from a lar^e number of witnesses able to speak with authority on the subiect constitute one of the most valuable features of their reports and devXd thereto™^''*^''^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^® _ At Edinburgh, where sewage irrigation is foUowed, it IS not worked for the purpose of purification, but for the purposes of utilisation. There they only filtered two gaUons per square yard per day. Perth, that is only -4 of a gaUon per square yard per day. And Warwick 4as one Ind a quarter gaUons with clay land, and was a failure. Take good soil; for mstance, at Croydon they are able to filter four gallons per square yard, while clay soil was only -8 tZ r h / -^^ ^'^^ '*'?«'^ outrageous; it is not ctS'[iSdS:er.T^''-'^'-'^^^^ c2
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