Specification of Henry Young Darracott Scott : treating and deodorizing sewage water.

  • Scott, H. Y. D.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Specification of Henry Young Darracott Scott : treating and deodorizing sewage water. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treating and Deodorizing Sewage Water. LETTERS PATENT to Henry Young Darracott Scott, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Engineers, for the Invention of “ Improvements in the Treatment and Deodorization op Sewage Water.” Sealed the 24th April 1866, and dated the 31st October 1865. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Young Darracott Scott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st October 1865. I, Henry Young Darracott Scott, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex, 5 Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Engineers, do hereby declare the nature ot the said Invention for “ Improvements in the Treatment and Deodorization of Sewage Water,” to be as follows :— The object of this Invention is to provide a method of getting rid in a cheap and efficient manner of the nuisance and danger attendant upon the 10 discharge of fluid sewage matter into our rivers and as a manure over our fields. The methods of deodorization hitherto employed by means of lime or metallic salts have either been imperfect from the inefficiency of the remedy, or have been abandoned on account of their expense. The lime process yields ^vith sewage matter a precipitate and deposit which is harmless when dry, but