Modern methods of sewage disposal : for towns, public institutions, and isolated houses / by Geo. E. Waring.

  • Waring, George E., Jr. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Modern methods of sewage disposal : for towns, public institutions, and isolated houses / by Geo. E. Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. Absorption, capacity for, of various soils, 13. Acre, rate of dosing per, 89, 91. population per, 89, 96, 97, 98,117, 187. Aeration of sewage niters, as devised by author, 141. at Lawrence, 143. largely increases capacity, 148. Lowcock's experiments, 143. Aerated filters, experiment with, at Newport, R.I., 149. Agricultural returns left out of con- sideration, 90. Alum, as used for purifying water, 182. results at Lawrence with, 192, 193, 194. Aluminum salts, effect of, on fish, 158. Amines process of sewage treatment, 49. destroys bacteria, 49. discussion of Sanitary Institute concerning, 51. postpones decomposition, 51. sludge from, not offensive, 50. Aminol a powerful disinfectant, 50. Ammonia free,-cannot be precipi- tated, 160, 179. albuminoid, changes of, 70. Ammonias, reduction of, in Law- rence experiments, 79. Amount of sewage purified by filtra- tion at Lawrence, Mass., 15. Amount of land necessary for sew- age irrigation, 12. Analyses of sewage and effluent, 154, 187. Application of sewage to land secures most complete destruction of bacteria, 17. Area required for irrigation and fil- tration, 14. Artificial use of streams, 200. Asylums, disposal of sewage from, 203. Automatic siphon for flush-tanks, 219. Bacteria of oxidation short-lived, 13. destroyed by Amines process, 49. in effluent of irrigation process, character of, 17. in oxidation of nitrogen, 70. more in some drinkiug waters than in some filtration effluents, 17. of oxidation supply adjusts itself to the demand, 14. removal of, by chemical treatment, 181, 182, 196, 197. the agents of decomposition, 35. Barriers at Wayne, 108. porous, for surface irrigation, 107, 237. Bedford sewage farm, 123. Berlin, effects of irrigation at, l(i, 17. Birmingham sewage farm, 128. Breton's farm, 93, 120. Broken stone used for screening sewage, 58, 105.