...Commission, in the following words: — "I should say that it is simply impossible that the oxidising power acting on sewage running in mixture with water...length is sufficient to remove its noxious quality. Taking the case of Oxford : if the sewage of Oxford was, in its entirety, discharged into the river...

...(First Report of Rivers Pollution Commission ; Minutes of Evidence, p. 49.) "I should say that it was simply impossible, that the oxidizing power " acting...length, " is sufficient to remove its noxious quality. Taking the case of Oxford, if the Water Supply of the Metropolis. XXI " sewage of Oxford was, in its...

...before the sewage matter becomes thoroughly oxidized." Sir Benjamin Hrodie thus confirms this opinion : "I should say that it is simply impossible that the...length, is sufficient to remove its noxious quality. With regard to oxidation, we know that to destroy organic matter the most powerful oxidizing agents...

...of chemistry, Oxford University, in his evidence before the "Rivers Pollution Commission," says : " I should say that it is simply impossible that the...length is sufficient to remove its noxious quality. I believe that an iufinitesimally small quantity of decaying matter is able to produce an injurious effect...

...of chemistry, Oxford University, in his evidence before the "Rivers Pollution Commission," says : " I should say that it is simply impossible that the...length is sufficient to remove its noxious quality. I believe that an infinitesimally small quantity of decaying matter is able to produce an injurious effect...

...professor of chemistry, Oxford University, in his evidence before the "Rivers Pollution Commission," says : "I should say that it is simply impossible that the...sewage running in mixture with water over a distance of auy length is sufficient to remove its noxious quality. I believe that an iufinitesimally small quantity...

...destruction of sewage by oxidation.' The same results had been arrived at by Sir B. Brodie, who says that it is ' simply impossible that the oxidizing...a distance of any length, is sufficient to remove the noxious quality. An enormous amount of the grosser particles are deposited in pools and in slowly...

...Sir Benjamin Brodie, in his evidence before a former River Pollution Commission, stated: "That it was simply impossible that the oxidizing power acting...length is sufficient to remove its noxious quality; that the oxygen in the water and on its surface does not exercise any rapidly oxidizing power on organic...

...Sir Benjamin Brodie, in his evidence before a former River Pollution Commission, stated: "That it was simply impossible that the oxidizing power acting...length is sufficient to remove its noxious quality; that the oxygen in the water and on its surface does not exercise any rapidly oxidizing power on organic...

...week. These results sustain the opinion of Sir Benjamin Brodie, drawn from examination of Thames river, that it is simply impossible that the oxidizing power acting on sewage, running in mixtures with water over a distance of any length, shall be sufficient to remove its noxious quality....