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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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the refuse as well as the gases finding its way into the flue: it is also provided with an ordinary furnace frame and doors ; the latter are required for two purposes, firstly, to start the furnace with fuel when commencmg operations ; secondly, for the extraction of metallic articles [from a tea-kettle to a sardine box], and the clinkers which result from burning refuse [containing every conceivable kmd of incombustible waste] :—When the furnaces are in fiiU work, the clinkers, &c., require to be with- drawn every two hours, and, at about the same mterval, the attendant on the top of the destructor commences shovelhng m a fresh charge. One man suffices to feed six cells for the day working, but two are requu-ed for the night shift, most of the refuse being delivered after sunset. Each cell will consume seven tons of refuse in 24 hours ; therefore a Destructor containing six compartments will consume 13,104 tons in fifty- two weeks of six working days ; and of the total mass delivered 80 per cent, is entirely consumed by

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