The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-04-20 00:00:00

TEI DRAINAGE SOMINE.

ft, 04 ',blur.

Sir,—At the Local Board enquiry on the drainage
questios, held at Dorchester on Wednesday lame, I
observe the Borough Surveyor is reported to have mid
bat " as Orewkerne there waa no system of drainage."
May I be permitted to correct this statement? There
lea very complete system of drainage here.
The Leough Surveyor further stated with regard
to tbe system of sewerage treatment adopted hue:
' Mr. Cobley, wanting to advertise his own pre.
cipitant, wa. treating the sewerage for the town." This
also is incorrect. Mter a month'. trial of Mr.
Cobley's mocee. in Use Northern Outfall IVorks, the
Crewkerne Sanitary Committee (of which I am
secretary) on February 33rd, 18Bri, arranged with Mr.
13obley that he should sapply his patent precipitant
for three months. Mr. Cobley therefore simply
supplies the committee with the precipitant, the
toutmest of the sewerage being under the control of
the committee, and not of Mr. Cobley. In fact the
precipitant is applied to the sewerage twice a day by
the labourer ens yotracttathe Sanitary Committee.
The ea of the ptecipitant on the
sewerage 'Mown by the copy of analysis annexed
hereto, for which also it may be seen that no land
whatever is required for irrigation purposes where
this primer is adopted, the effluent being purified
sufficiently to be admitted into the nearest stream.—
I ant, air, your obedient servant,
0. RIDIIIIALIBLAKL

1414 April, 1806.
Report on a sample of wrap effluent take= from
tbir nertlient °Wall works Crewkerno, Somerset,
after treatment by the Coble, proems, in the premise,
el the Crewkerm ISanitary Inspector.
The sample of efenent bad per 104000 parts the
fellowintruwasinposition :
Buiphuric Acid. 1114
Nitric Arid ... 044
Nitrous Acid tram
Tree Ammonia • 1110
Albsonuseid Ammonia— .., 01171
Total Solids ... TOl5
Low on Ignition 1011
Tb s amittur guile alum, aad tam from the last
odour. IS • alight yellow tint. The analysis
Mows that this ellumat contains but a very
minute quantity of commie matter; so little in
lae• that it le not capable of undergoing putrefac-
tive desompenst The sample after a week's
elmsding Sc my laboratory, MOWNe purified
and tree from amall. It has, therefore, bete ellectugly
memed. sad in every respect sufficiently pure to allow
el its being disobared into any stream without cam
Sag offence or injury.—(Signed). Om, Houma,
. Analyst, on. Secretary of the Society a
Public Analysts."
Retract from letter accompanying tbe report
"I am glad to be able to report very favourably on
the sample of sewage edluent received from you a
little while ago. Isiaupureuaeewageemurntoeod
be.—Youre, i.e. (Signed). Orro flesoita."

W EirmouTs.
On Tuesday Mr. H. R. Farquharson, M.?. for
Wait Donut, preasated • petition to Parliament from
Wennotath against a separate Parliament for Ind and.
Wittman Oquant.—Frosn the statistical tab lea
;A published we And that the school obtained the
place in Latin, out of 615 caudidmas ; 27th in
()reek, out of 49M1 ; 41st place in mathematics, out of
4.704 paididates and ./ the menhir candidates this
.41001 obtained ftd place in physical_geography, Out
of 107 candidates, and UM place in Latin out of fliA
candidates. The scholarship value al • year, gi van
to the boy in Hu UMW gethooi who does bait,. the
Cambridge Local Rumination, ba• been awarded to
Davis. This is tenable at the Upper School. An
exhibition of £lou year has beim awarded to Philip
Duddey.