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refuse in 24 hours, and consists of a sloping furnace with hearth 
and fire grate covered in by a reverberatory arch of fire brick, 
with one opening at the top for the gases to escape into the flue, 
and a furnace frame and door for the withdrawal of the clinkers. 
The refuse which is tipped from the platform (before named) on 
to the top of the cclls is pushed down the incline or throat with 
a long iron prong, and slides forward on to the sloping hearth, 
whence, when sufficiently dry, it is helped forward on to the fire 
bars, where it burns somewhat fiercely, the fire brick arch above 
named concentrating the radiant heat upon it. The clinker is 
drawn about every three hours, but this is done without stopping 
the burning. This clinker is about 25 per cent. of the weight of 
refuse burnt. The heated gases pass through a multitubular 
boiler, and form steam which drives a small horizontal engine, 
which works a couple of mortar mills, in which are ground up 
the clinkers drawn from the destructor. The mortar thus made 
sells at 5s. per ton. 
The Bee Hive Refuse Destructor is built in the form of a dome 
or hive of fire brick, with an opening on one side through which 
the gases pass into the flue; at a quarter of the circle right and 
left of this opening are other two openings, one for the admission 
of refuse, the other for withdrawing the clinker. The bottom of 
the feed door is raised about 12 inches above the bottom of the 
clinker door, so as to allow of the bars sloping down from the one 
to the other The feed door is on the level of the platform where 
the refuse is tipped. Under the bars just named is another 
chamber, also with sloping bars, fixed about 15 inches from the 
upper bars. On these bars a fire is laid, the heat from which 
dries the refuse placed on the upper bars, and renders it inflam- 
mable and open to immediate combustion, which takes place 
partly on the fire, and partly on the upper or refuse bars. Below 
the fire chamber is still another chamber, with hollowed floor, in 
which water is constantly standing, the steam from which prevents 
the bars being warped by the fierce heat generated in the des- 
tructor. One of these destructors will burn about 15 tons per 
24 hours, or more than twice the quantity that one cell of Healey 
and Fryer’s will burn with a residue in the form of clinker of only 
124 per cent. of weight of refuse burnt. I need scarcely point 
out that such a saving is a great item in the accounts of any Cor- 
poration or Sanitary Authority. 
Now with these two appliances at work, there is no need for 
any town to complain of being unable to dispose of the contents 
of ashpits, market refuse, offal, &c. The way is open to every 
town, and all the trouble and disease arising from the storage o1 
these waste matters can be obviated. 
Such are some of the appliances now in use for cleansing and 
rendering healthy the towns and villages of this and other lands, 
