The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-07-22 00:00:00

THE SEWAGE QUIaTION.

At the p•esent oriels we behive the toll )wing article
on the tidies Gu tlll.l C 0... "ABC " process iu the
Money Market &vino will be interesting :

surely there is little practical wisdom ip the wpag
W. ere euff uiitug—eudering iutensely —from an evil of our
own creating—en evil which every year to becoming mom
eon um an I more Intolerable; and yet we refuse to adopt
means of remedy which are actually In iiur hinds, and
the eflicser of which has on ahunlantly demonstrated.
Too at the elate of the titer Thames Som. diagram*
above Lendon the Thames ill drilled by a mar of 'mega
which ought to be treated on the soot, 11174 never to malt
the rivet at all. We ha, hien guilty of the egregious
folly of conveying the immense our of sewage of this
hags metrut ilia to. point • aimparatively short distance
off. and them practictily depisitlng It in Our peat wit It•
wty w tlm the destiny of being Bated to and fro ender
tdii Mill net.

Startled lots, spasmodic activity, the euthorities are
now turning into ahe Theme, at its most fastid point 140
too. ot chloride of Unto dolly. This repreeentr..l La per
ton, Ai 960 • day, or CASIO a w. ela, or it the rate of
more thee £450.000 • yam. A,, all this sop tie, is 4
more pall,imlve—in feet, shoat wa.t.,, mere Noland know.
The magnitude of the evil that has to bi cl.alt with le
really oar only @arum for our disgraceful apathy. We
are appalled it the magnitude of the task which, word-
log to the stetson...its of Ss, exports, nee us Thy
dam us into • sort of ela ett b melon apathy by menial-
log us of tha fort that. a. the metrnpolLs alone,
there so. somet4ing ilk. 600,000 4044 of liquid 11•0/4411 to
be dealt with daily. A 4.1, of roars., the hts.lo.rs ..f
applylog a palliative brings in a Is•fis sorront o'
profitable onoupall .n to soewhedy. Ooe of the late.;
dhow...les Is that Barking awl Crosil3o.4 awe ton steer,
and socordingly it le coolly pop wed that another sum.'
four millions italics shalt he spent In laying down femek
pipe. for conveying the filthy compoon I t,em no dist .nt
point, and there setting op fresh works ! The only Ift et
will be that we shall I. ul the rite I r A INA f orther off, •,..1
presently have the mwag, brought beck by Use tide unler
ear DOI II IL IWO. All this le a nose* ...leer sble pall &Vv..,
tensporegy device. • wadi o' ti 1111.4. 141 d 4 wilful
neatest of our duty t ap sly • permanent rernedr.
For the most remukahle (moor, ..f the whole boslue,s
is that • remedy actually •&lats. Nit only do. It eclat,
bat it on be amoliel easily, ant at compazativ. ly 11404
*spume. In the smiler ve,ra of the Nati.. Coo,,
Company there wee much eontrever•y swell matt to the
results of Its "A BC" trace.. ILA the comproy
has lived down all c latrov,r.y. Fr many yea-a
ill ha. been engaged in pert-cline it. pr ere 0, and n .w.
according to the testimony sot autho- i'lm of th biom.t
rank, the application Is in-nt effeetusl. All th•
nonmetal with s,Trage aro own .me at any spot. In toad
of ths sewage being turned Iwo rivers ant poliut.g
them, it can b, &al with In each locality. It ia
swplioab's to • paOlic instltuti a moth as ths Wellington
Oollege, where it la need with p rfec. encl.:Mi, to the great
improvemeot of th alth of the inmate.. Or It ma So
applied to towns, on at Aylesbury, who_re it boo bean In
nee for many years, to the waspish, aatialaVion of the
authoritioi, as deasonetrated by tast.monhala (leen uod.r
tbe corporate seal. Or it ean los applied at Barking or
Oromasma In fact, the company have proposed to the
Metropolitan Board of Work. to make at their own
sapiens dernonatraUon on • mol erste ices at either of
those pointa, is order to satisfy the Bard of lb, cy
of their method.
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—Anti-ore-lel:Tat does that oat! ooneist I The "AB C "
proems le, as It. name alumna ty itoolf. Ito in-
sists in it.. application to tbe raw mass* of a percestypi
of Mum, blood obammal. and ground clay, which pracipitatee
this °organic wittier and permits the watery palates
I. Aar away In a clam stream. The effluent water is
marked by auditions nblch rd.. it far &boys t'ie mope
of lb. R 1,... Panetta Propintion kr, by. he•iir.
which has fallen in many respect' into disuse. The
fact that lab ilea In Ms wsitsr Is a proof of its peril,.
Equally inodnigee with th• water, the solid deposit. dread
by preseum le coorated Into cake. of manor, with
£1 10, • ton, as mar Weed by chemical analysis. A
I atm proof of the •Me• of the °manta is affoedad by the
fact that at this price thi cismand exceeds Um supWr.
Shows of (arm praduce and mitoialides hare prove' On•
every kind of fruit, vegettbi*, and lions.. thrive* ye°, tee
that it is excellent for potat•es aol mania& awl that. as
ewer& •eyeals„ matron oif Fowler and wheat
ham beau obtained Ira. ii. lu t bane gusno bed,
London alone poosieseas—aod wsitea—a value of £1.500001)
annually.
Th• proceas copal us MI no ruis whereat rit Is applied.
AA • combined precipitating and desalorteing process.
lii. Ineeitely supstiar to all eyatema of wa se Irrigation,
the gaboities and evils of which, during the 'polls
of wet weather which so, so fregoent in this cannay.
ere well kaowa. Kent:ire:, the condoles of

aml of eaUslaction sera. lei Ito She proem
11l numberlein Go the Um October. MI, the Afire'
lomy Local B *IA of Modth eterhollen u inflame:—
The Locel Board of Husk% for th anent* of Aticebtlfl
hereby express Me, mire ear isiscgiot mite 114 ceP
Vowel sanitary ounce. of : h • Net mg Guano Co.p.uyl
A B C nhhh boo I ,t .tt• m4'll+6 years been
• mployel for the treatment tug sewage of lb • d lava.
end tom have much pt • ...ere to c 'attuning t .ei corgi!.
e.t.a of tha 23rd Joy, 1930 Too the .18 lent w .ter was,
and still continuer, in a millie.eatly porti ri et •te to a ire
foto any riv.r. u slomirn by dm Chem.:el analyms of
Profeong Wanklyn an i a.m. That there hoe been no
complaint of any Mud, and that dm Wit oparation. ars
carmd on without the slightest nom one, to Mr neighbour
hoot.

slops that date the L,.csl Board have ren•wei their
agreement with the company ins sor,V.er seven year. at
an ir.cieued subsidy. Wellingicio C.l ..ce bee riven an
equal y eariefactory verdict. At the N itional Fiehariu
Estabitlon, bold at Norwich in IuSI, • o ler med.' and
guile were awarded to the Notice lie .no Company for
tow exhibit of proc to fee I' 010600 i ac., it t • nth-
Ids it!. Aram pollute.' by sweeps eat r`t-toles or other
"wo.ks." At the Internationd Fisheries Exhibition, held
in Leaden lad year, ber ll.J•stra Commissioners. upon
the roc munendatiori of the I otsroation Jules. awn ded
a gold cartel and a diploma of honour to the cmapeny for
" purification of sewage."