Disposal of refuse : report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, upon some new methods of disposing of all kinds of refuse by cremation : together with extracts from the reports of the Sanitary and Streets Committees upon the same subject / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.
- W. Sedgwick Saunders
- Date:
- 1881
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Credit: Disposal of refuse : report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, upon some new methods of disposing of all kinds of refuse by cremation : together with extracts from the reports of the Sanitary and Streets Committees upon the same subject / by W. Sedgwick Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![quite inadequate for the purpose of bunimg what in my opinion should he burnt,'' a fact which is patent to everyone who has witnessed its operations. In the face of all these drawbacks to a system estabhshed at a prodigious cost, and commenced with great expectations, and regardmg the treat- ment of house refuse as belonging exclusively to the Sanitary Department, it seemed incumbent upon me to make diligent search for a comprehensive remedy. Reflecting over the question in all its bearings, my mind was led irresistibly to Nature's great purifier, heat, and the outcome of the inquhies, instituted in consequence, was the system of cremation, which constitutes the raison d'etre of this Report. Since the summer of 1877 I have been carefully observing the progress of plans, which were then inaugurated, for the complete destruction by fire of the following kinds of refuse, viz.:—Mineeal Matter (cinders, ashes, metals, crockery, glass) ; Vegetable Matter (swee]Dings of paved roads and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21460309_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
