Reports of Dr. Parkes and Dr. Sanderson on the sanitary condition of Liverpool / by E.A. Parkes and J. Burdon-Sanderson.

Date:
[1871]
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Credit: Reports of Dr. Parkes and Dr. Sanderson on the sanitary condition of Liverpool / by E.A. Parkes and J. Burdon-Sanderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The deposits were found to consist of cinders varying from the size of a pea to that of a large nut or bean or sometimes larger ; of smaller cinders which were however quite recognizable; of a powder composed in part though not altogether of cinders, and of other matters. They were therefore separated into these four classes and the following gives the percentage composition of each class. Percentage of large and small cinders, powder and other matters. No. of sample. In 100 lbs. Large Cinders. SmaU Cinders. Powder. Other Matters. 1 60.71 10.71 17.85 10.71 2 50.00 10.00 30.00 10.00 3 41.66 20.83 29.16 8.34 4 60.30 15.15 48.48 6.06 5 20.47 8.82 67.64 2.94 6 58.27 10.48 25.64 5.59 The “ other matters” consisted of the following substances : about 8 ounces of each sample being taken and all the “ other substances ” picked out. Other matters of— No. 1. Pieces of potato ; peahusk ; bits of wood; bits of straw; paper; blotting paper; bit of bone; textile fabric; some hair. No. 2. Pieces of wood shaving ; rotten straw ; broken crockery ; rotten potato parings; burnt bone; a few pieces of old rotten woollen cloth; pieces of egg shell; stone ; pieces of rotten paper. No. 3. Feathers ; bits of paper ; rotten straw ; little bits of rotten stick ; bits of rotten potato ; potato paring; bits of shell; small piece of brick ; pieces of glass. No. 4.—Rotten straw, fish bone, rotten potato parings, broken egg shells, a stone, a few pieces of unburnt coal, some bits of charcoal, some soft little pultaceous matters, usually coated with cinder dust and without smell till crushed, but then very offensive. No. 5.—Pieces of glass, small stones, rotten straw, rotten pieces of wood, a little bit of solder. No potato parings but soine small dark lumps which are evidently of organic origin but are quite free from smell and though