The Encyclopaedia of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering: A Handy Working Guide in All Matters Connected with Municipal and Sanitary Engineering and AdministrationWilliam Henry Maxwell, John Thomas Brown Constable, 1910 - 561 páginas |
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Página 1 - For the purpose of enabling any urban authority to regulate slaughter-houses within their district the provisions of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, with respect to slaughter-houses shall be incorporated with this Act.
Página 525 - We are strongly of opinion that the water, as supplied to the consumer in London, is of a very high standard of excellence and of purity, and that it is suitable in quality for all household purposes.
Página 399 - In applying this test it is important that the suspended solids should be removed, and estimated separately. " For the guidance of local authorities we may provisionally state that an effluent would generally be satisfactory if it complied with the following conditions : — " 1. That it should not contain more than 3 parts per 100,000 of suspended matter ; and "2. That, after being filtered through filter paper, it should not absorb more than — "(a) 0'5 part by weight per 100,000 of dissolved...
Página 300 - Is established — 1. To secure the advancement and facilitate the acquisition of that knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Surveyor, viz. — the art of determining the value of all descriptions of landed and house property, and of the various interests therein; the practice of managing and developing estates ; and the science of admeasuring and delineating the physical features of the earth, and of measuring and estimating artificers
Página 64 - ... but if on reopening any grave the soil be found to be offensive, such soil shall not be disturbed.
Página 490 - Fourth, in halls arranged with galleries the difficulty of so arranging downward currents that, on the one hand, the air rendered impure in the galleries shall not contaminate that which is descending to supply the main floor below, and, on the other hand, the supply for the floor shall not be drawn aside to the galleries, is so great that it is almost an impossibility to effect it.
Página 454 - These requirements should, we think, be modified, they are, in our opinion, not sufficiently elastic ; and, moreover, experience has shown that special storm filters, which are kepi as stand-by filters, are not efficient. We find that the injury done to rivers by the discharge into them of large volumes of storm sewage chiefly arises from the excessive amount of suspended solids which such sewage contains, and that these solids can be very rapidly removed by settlement.
Página 275 - No land was available for treatment, and in 1898 a commission consisting of Baldwin Latham, Percy Frankland, and WH Perkins began a series of experiments on the newer rapid methods. The first report, made in 1899 (Manchester, 1900 a), concluded that in spite of the presence of industrial wastes, the "bacterial system is the system best adapted for the purification of the sewage of Manchester." The experts believed that double-contact beds would produce a satisfactory effluent. " It may be taken broadly...