Volume 6

Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1898 to inquire and report what methods of treating and disposing of sewage (including any liquid from any factory or manufacturing process) may properly be adopted.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal.
Date:
1902-1915
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1898 to inquire and report what methods of treating and disposing of sewage (including any liquid from any factory or manufacturing process) may properly be adopted. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    863/1008 (page 561)
    Manchester Ship Canal: = = - — Tattoo Fal Examination and investigation of waters of 86, 347 * = Visit to and particulars of — - - - 345-347 Manganese peroxide, influence of on fermentation of sewage solid matters - “eS - - - 63 Margate (Kent) sewage and sewage disposal at - 508 Materials used for contact and sprinkler beds, ex- periments on - - . - - - 177, 180 Menai Bridge, sewage and sewage disposal at - - 509 Mersey River, investigation of waters of - - - 85 Mersey and Irwell watershed : _ Particulars as to sewage treatment in - 348-375 Cee ga Methods employed in field work - - - - 221 Microspira desulphuricans (Beyerink) - - - 119 Microspira estuarti (Van Delden) - - 120 Middlesborough (Yorkshire), sewage and sewage dis- posal ats - - - 511 Milford Haven, sewage and sewage disposal at - - 56138 Murray and Irvine, genesis of blue muds - : - 118 Newport (Mon.) : Sewage and sewage disposal at - - - - 514 Visit to and particulars of — - - - 383-388 Newton Abbott, see Teignmouth. Nitrification, the nature of the chemical changes which occur during - - - - - 30-44 Nitrates : Production of - - Reduction of . - Nitrogen : - 30-44, 175, 182, 192, 195 - 48-53, 175, 182-191, 195 Oxidation stage of fermentation - . - 44 Fermentable substances - - - - - 44 Nitrogen gas: Amount of absorbed from air by fresh and salt water at different temperatures - - - 58 Conditions of its appearance or non-appearance during aerobic fermentations- - - sh end Evolution of during the purification of sewage, 172, 175, 182-191, 195 Nuisances : Caused by green seaweeds — - - - 141-168 Caused directly by sewage - - =, LEIL138 Ouse River( Yorkshire) - - - - 325-338 Ouse River (Hampshire) - - - - - 115 Oxidaticn in polluted waters, its nature - epee zk Oxygen: Absorption of by de-aerated waters and by directly oxidisable substances — - - - 45 Actually consumed in aerobic fermentation compared with permanganate test = - - 54 Amount of: Necessary for fish life - - - 205-210 Absorbed from air by fresh and salt water at different temperatures = - - - 658 Dissolved, see Dissolved Oxygen. Maximum rate of absorption allowable in tidal waters - - - - . - << G7 Rate of absorption from air : during Fermentative changes in polluted waters - - . - - - 69-78 in Slightly polluted waters, summary of experiments on - - - - = eT in Effluents from filter beds and from land treatment - - - - - in Mixtures of polluted and unpolluted waters - . - - - - 85-91 Paton Noel: Experiments on amount of dissolved oxygen 79-84 required by fish - - - - - - 208 Pollution of estuaries in relation to the passage of salmon - - - - - - - 203 Penmaenmawr, sewage and sewage disposal at - - 56 Penryn and Penryn River, see Falmouth. Penrhynside, sewage and sewage disposal at - = 617 Penzance, sewage and sewage disposal at - - - 619 Peroxide of manganese, reduction cf by sewage solids - - - - - - - - - 63 Plymouth, sewage and sewage disposal at - - - §20 Plymouth, and estuaries of Plym and Tamar, visit to and particulars of - - - - 377-379 Polluted beds of tidal waters, de-aerating effect of, on waters flowing over them - 88-91, 131-134, 325 Pollation within limits of fouling, relative capacities _ Pollution of water : ; Effects on fish - - > - - 210-218 Maximum pollution of, allowable within limits of fouling - - . - - : 68-96 Pollution of rivers, in relation to fish (see also salmon) - - 5 tes - - - 201-204 Poole (Dorset), sewage and sewage disposal at - 522 Portmadoc, Tremadoc and Bo-:thygest, sewage and sewage disposal at - - - - - - 623 Portsmouth, sewage and sewage disposal at - - §25 Preston, sewage and sewage disposal at - - 526 Preston and estuaries of the Ribble and Douglas, visit to and particulars of - - - - - 305-322 Propionic acid, formation of during fermentation of Ulva Latissima - - - - - - 144-147 Purification of polluted waters by bacterial agency proceeds in two stages - : - - - 24-89 Purification of sewage, see Sewage. Pwllheli, sewage and sewage disposal at - - - 527 Ramsgate, sewage and sewage disposal at - - - 5628 Regnard and Jolyet, respiratory changes in aquatic animals - - - - - - - - 205 Respiration of fish - - - - - 205-210 Respiratory ratio, see Fermentation. Respiratory quotient of marine animals - - - 206 Ribble Joint Committee, powers of - - - 308 (Footnote) Ribble Watershed, visit to and particulars of - 307-322 Rivers Pollution Commission - - = LOS 30 aaa le, Robin Hood’s Bay, nuisance from Ulva Latissima at 141 Rochelle salt, experiments on aerobic fermentation of solutions of - - - - - - - - 43 Rochelle salt and urea, experiments on aerobic fer- mentation of solutions of — - . - - - 14 Rochelle salt and asparagin, experiments on aerobic fermentation of solutions of - - - - 24-27 Rochester, sewage and sewage disposal at - - 529 Salmon and pollution : in the Dee - - - - - - - 203 in the Eden - - - - - - 202, 377 in the Humber : 2 - - - 203, 214 in the Liffey - - : - - - - 210 in the Lune - - - : - - - 202 in the Ribble - : = . = - 203, 315 in the Severn - - - - - - 393, 393 in the Tamar and Plym - - - - 379 in the Teign - - - - - - 409, 411 in the Tyne - - - - - - - 202 in the Usk - - = - - - 214, 383 Salmon, trout, and sewage - - - - 212 (Footnote) Sawdust, pollution of rivers in America by - - 201 Scarborough, sewage and sewage disposal at - 531 Scudder, F., analyses of sewage effluents in Mersey and Irwell watershed - - - - - 78-84 Self-purification of polluted waters, exceptional nature of the processes of oxidation in - - 1]-12 Septic Tank Sludge, Effects of the discharge into a tidal estuary - - . - - - - Severn, River, see Gloucester. Sewage, effect on aeration of waters polluted by - 9 555 Sewage, effects of different methods of treating- 171-194 Pollution : Effects of on fish - - - - 201-218 Ulva Latissima in relation to - - 153-164 Solids : Cost of dredging - - - - - 114 Effects of emanations from on health - 113, 115 In dredgings, how estimated - - - 225 Washed ashore during storms - - - 115 Shoreham (New), Sussex, sewage and sewage dis- posal at - - - - - - : - 532 Southampton, sewage and sewage disposal at - 534 Visit to and particulars of — - . - - 403 Southend-on-Sea, sewage and sewage disposal at - 536 Southport (Lancashire) sewage and sewage disposal es at - - - - - - - - - South Shields, sewage and sewage disposal at - - 540 Spirillum Desvlphvricans - - - - - 120 Standards for tidal waters - - - cy aN ete Stirling, sewage and sewage disposal at - - 5§2