The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cent., the cost per ton for liquid sewage distributed amounts to 2-18 farthings (or a little over \d.) per ton. The land in the Old Field has therefore cost about £11 Is. 0d. per acre, taking 5,000 tons, and the New Field £3 195. 0d., taking 1,742 tons per acre. The Garden returns show that the piece of grass land (four acres) laid down last spring, produced 40 tons per acre of mixture of clover and other grasses, and but for the long continuance of wet weather, which prevented it being cut as it might have been earlier, over 50 tons per acre would have been obtained. Next year I have little doubt that 00 tons will be realized. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant IIENRY MARTIN, Engineer. January Is?, 1867.