Sanitary engineering : a practical treatise on the collection, removal and final disposal of sewage, and the design and construction of works of drainage and sewerage, with a special chapter on the disposal of house refuse and sewage sludge, and numerous hydraulic tables, formulae & memoranda, including an extensive series of tables of velocity & discharge of pipes & sewers, especially computed by Ganguillet and Kutter's formula / by E.C.S. Moore.

  • Moore, E. C. S. (Edward Crozier Sibbald), 1844-
Date:
1898
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Credit: Sanitary engineering : a practical treatise on the collection, removal and final disposal of sewage, and the design and construction of works of drainage and sewerage, with a special chapter on the disposal of house refuse and sewage sludge, and numerous hydraulic tables, formulae & memoranda, including an extensive series of tables of velocity & discharge of pipes & sewers, especially computed by Ganguillet and Kutter's formula / by E.C.S. Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    CHAPTER XII.—SUBSOIL DRAINAGE. Source of Moisture—Injurious Effects of Wet Soils—Report of Commission—Depth of Drains—Arrangements of—Fall—Distance between—Direction—Outlets— Silt Basin—Use of Sumps—Flushing—Air Drains—Clay Soils—Drainage under Foundations—Buildings —Magazines—Surrounding Site—Special for Footings •—For Peaty Soil—Railway Embankment, Drains through Foot of—Execution —Trenches, Depth of—Ordinary Tools—Machines—Bottom to be Currented Accurately—Material and Size of Pi[ies—Quality—Junctions—Method of laying —Filling in Trench—Stones over Pipes—Fine Earth—Object of—Stone, or French Drains—Hand Packing—Brushwood—Boggy Land—Failure of Drains —Silt—Vermin—Roots of Trees—Roads—Plan of Drains—Special Measures for Underground Buildings—Colonel Moore's Process for Curing Damp Walls General Remarks on—Advantages of ... .. ... 335 CHAPTER XIII.—SANITARY NOTES. Made Ground—Natural Soil—The Influence of Subsoil Water on Health—Admis- sion of Steam to Sewers—Drain Testing—House Inspection—Hydraulic or Water Test—Drain Plugs—Jones's Pipe Stopper—Peppermint and Smoke Tests —Instructions for—The Eclipse Smoke Generator—The Watts Asphyxiator— The Tyndale Asphyxiator—The Champion Fumigator—The Banner Drain Grenade—Kemp's Drain Tester—Pain's Smoke Cases or Rockets—Burnet's Smoke Drain Tester—Analysis of Subsoil Water—Old Culverts to be Destroyed —Watsr Supply Pipes to be Disconnected from Sewer—Examination of Drains —Flushing—Water Mains to be Periodically Tested—Subsoil Drainage—Sites of Infectious Diseases to be Recorded—Disinfectants—Powerful or Germicides— Weak—Antiseptics—Deodoriser but not an Antiseptic—Aerial Deodorant.s—Dis- infecting Powders—Liquids—Use of—Izal—Formalin— Reevozone—Condy's Fluid—Chloride of Lime—Calvert's Carbolated Creosote^Method of Application of Disinfectants—Process recommended by Drs. Dupre and Klein—Sanitary Maxims ... ... ... 407 CHAPTER XIV.—SEWAGE DISPOSAL. EflScient Disposal Necessary—Standard of Purity—Various Systems—Dry Earth— The Sea, or Tidal Estuary — Influence of Tidal Currents on Irrigation— Researches of Dr. Voeckler—Mr. Warrington's Report—The Theory of Nitrification—The Distribution of the Nitrifying Organism in Soil—Settling Tanks—General Form of—Dundrum Tanks—The Dortmund Settling Tank— Broad Irrigation — Beddington Irrigation Farm — Distribution over Land- Ridge and Furrow System—Preparation of Land—Acreage—Crops Suitable— Capacity of Land—Filtration (Intermittent Downward)—Constant Aeration Required—Filters—Keirby's Patent Mixer—Precipitating Agents^—Variety of Processes—Lime—The Amines—Lime and Sulphate of Iron—Lime and Alumina —The Glasgow Sewage Works—Spence's Alumino-ferric —Richmond Main Sewerage Board Works—The Natural Purification Company's System (Cosham's Patent)—The Universal Sewage Purification Company (The Ives Patent) —Oxynite—The A. B. C. Process—The International—Mangotsfield Sewerage and Sewage Disposal—Analysis of Effluent, &c.—Couder's Sulphate of Iron— The Hermite—Dale's Muriate of Iron—Massachusetts, Experimental Investi- gations by the State Board of Health of — Relations of Sewage and the Effluents from Chemical Precipitation to the Growth of Bacteria and Algi^ —Conclu.sions—Electrolysis—Web.ster's Process for the Electrical Purification