Report on the sanitation of Bombay / by Baldwin Latham.

  • Latham, Baldwin, -1917.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Report on the sanitation of Bombay / by Baldwin Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOEANDUM BY SUEGEON-MAJOR WEIE, MEDICAL OFPICEE OP HEALTH. Tho nuisance folt during the monsoon from tlae flats was more serious than for many years. The nuisance was caused by a deposit of sludge across the reservoir. A. Interrupting the current of sewage, B. Polluting the water. I wrote two reports on the causes of tho offensive smells. Before giving these reports, I may mention that the deposit in some of the sewers in the Fort, as in the Church Gate and Marine Street sewers, was excep- tionally small. In the Marine Street sewer there was practically none. Popularly the nuisance from the Flats was ascribed to sewer emana- tions, but the nuisance was not due to the sewers, nor to any nuisance caused within the sewers. It was due to the deposit in the reservoir and its effects. Eepoet Dated 18th Ootobek, 1889. I have the honour to submit the result of observations I made this morning- A little after six, one of the sluice gates at Clerk Eoad was opened, and I followed the sewage from the sluice gates to the Vellard, Mahalaxmi ; the stream of sewage on entering the reservoir set towards the Vellard, and was preceded by a wave or border of charcoal and sewage matters some two feet broad, having a wavy outline, as The rate of motion was, on an average, 45 feet in one minute and twenty seconds as I timed it. I followed tho sewage till tho current arrived at the Vellard. It now extended in an irregular line from tho Vellard east, across the reservoir, having the greatest surface north as follows, the apex being towards the Vellard. In about two hours, the surface of the water of the reservoir, as far as I could see, was covered with sewage, i. e., in a few words tho reservoir was more or less converted into a sewage pond. The set towards the