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absorb acres adopted aërated alumina ammonia amount arrangement average ball valve carbonic acid cent chalk character charcoal chemical cistern clay cleansing closet handle collected condition containing cost deep depth detritus diameter discharged disposal districts drainage drains Drawing dwellings effect effluent effluent water exist Farm filter filtration flushing free soil gallons ground guano gully impurity inches irrigation Joseph Bazalgette land lime liquid refuse liquid sewage London manholes manure means Merthyr Tydfil Messrs midden obtained Oolites organic matter outfall outlet pass placed precipitation prevent private communicating sewer pump purpose quantity of sewage quantity of water rainfall raised red sandstone removed Rivers Pollution Commissioners sanitary authority sanitary engineer Section sewer gas sewerage shown by Fig shows sink sludge solid matter streams SUB-IRRIGATION subsoil water sufficient surface waters tanks tion tons towns and villages trap tube under-drainage valve ventilation waste water supply water-closets water-tight
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Page 181 - Any liquid which contains, in 100,000 parts by weight, more than one part by weight of sulphur in the condition either of sulphuretted hydrogen or of a soluble sulphuret. "(h) Any liquid possessing an acidity greater than that which is produced by adding two parts by weight of real muriatic acid to 1000 parts by weight of distilled water.
Page 50 - ... within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 19 - The temperature may be increased by mixing hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, and burning it from a safety jet.
Page 406 - Every pipe hereafter laid for the conveyance of, or in connection with, water supplied by the company, shall, when laid in open ground, be laid at least two feet six inches below the'surface, and shall in every exposed situation be properly protected 'against the effects of frost.
Page 180 - Every person who causes to fall or flow, or knowingly permits to fall or flow or to be carried into any stream any poisonous noxious or polluting liquid proceeding from any factory or manufacturing process, shall (subject as in this Act mentioned) be deemed to have committed an offence against this Act.
Page 403 - Act, or wrongfully fails to do anything which, under any of those provisions, ought to be done for the prevention of the waste, misuse, undue consumption, or contamination of the water of such company...
Page 35 - There is no river in the United Kingdom long enough to secure the oxidation and destruction of any sewage which may be discharged into it, even at its source.
Page 3 - ... thinking these small differences can in no way affect us. A little more or less oxygen might not affect us ; but, supposing its place occupied by hurtful matter, we must not look on the amount as too small. Subtracting 0-980 from 0-999 we have a difference of 190 in a million.
Page 384 - ... ditches and decomposed there, considerable nuisance had existed. With some structural alterations in the privies (the principles of which are stated in their proper place in this report), and such needed supervision as will now be obtained from the sanitary authority appointed under the Public Health Act, 1872, the arrangements at Eastwick may be regarded as a pattern to be followed by villages and small towns similarly circumstanced. " From what has already been said it may be inferred that...