Investigations on the purification of Boston sewage made at the sanitary research laboratory and sewage experiment station of the Massachusetts institute of technology, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem / By C.E.A. Winslow and Earle B. Phelps.

  • Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Investigations on the purification of Boston sewage made at the sanitary research laboratory and sewage experiment station of the Massachusetts institute of technology, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem / By C.E.A. Winslow and Earle B. Phelps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    CONTENTS. Page. Introduction, by William T. Sedgwick 5 History of the sewage-disposal problem 9 Nature of the problem - ^ Composition of sewages 1^ Disposal of sewages by dilution in lakes, rivers, and the sea 16 Disposal of sewages by broad irrigation or sewage farming 24 Treatment of sewages by chemical precipitation 29 Purification of sewages by intermittent filtration through sand 35 Treatment of sewages in the septic tank 42 Purification of sewages by the contact process in beds of coarse material.. 53 Purification of sewages by a continuous trickling process over coarse material 75 Recent tendencies in sewage-disposal practice in England, Germany, and the United States - 88 Experiments on the purification of Boston sewage, 1903-1905 97 The sewage experiment station 1 97 Analytical methods and interpretation of results 107 Character of the crude sewage Ill Removal of suspended matter 114 Preliminary treatment in the septic tank .: 119 Purification by intermittent sand filtration 126 Purification in contact beds of coarse material 182 Conclusions bearing on the treatment of Boston sewage...1 147 Acknowledgments 149 Bibliography 149 Index 155