ON THE TREATMENT AND UTILIZATION OF SEWAGE. 



Analysis of Water supplied to the To-vra of Bury for domestic use. 



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The principal outfalls from which the bulk of the sewage is discharged are 

 three in number ; there is also a minor outfall near Bury Bridge. The re- 

 spective discharges from these outfalls are shown in the following Tabic : ■ 



Little Bridge discharging into the Eiver Eoch : — 



galls, per 

 gallons. 24 hours. 



per day of 15 hours 249,480 



per night of 9 hours 88,452 



337,932 



Bury Bridge, discharging into the Eiver Irwell : — 



per day of 15 hours 48,575 



per night of 9 hours 29,185 



77,760 



Hinds Outfall, discharging into the Eiver Irwell : — 



per day of 15 hours 40,500 



per night of 9 hours 18,144 



58,644 



Bury Bridge Abutment, discharging into the Eiver Irwell : — • 



Discharge for the 24 hours , 20,160 



Total gallons per 24 hours 



494,496 



BcmarTcs by a Sub-Committee, consisting of Messrs. Geantham (^Chairman), 

 CoRFiELD, Hope, and Willi amsoi^. 



Burj' was selected as one of the towns to be investigated, because it is a 

 town where it may be said there are no water-closets ; and the Committee 

 having heard a good deal of the efficiency and even economy of the Lanca- 

 shire ash-pit system for the removal of faecal matter and other solid refuse, 

 desired to possess themselves as soon as possible of the facts in connexion 

 with this system as regards some one typical town. Another reason for the 

 selection of Bury was that the almost total absence of water-closets would 

 enable the Committee, by examining the liquid escaping into and discharged 

 from the sewers, to judge whether any of the proposed methods of intercept- 

 ing faecal matter from the sewers (such, for instance, as the earth-closet) 

 would in themselves be either a solution of the great " sewage question," or 

 even one considerable step towards it. 



The figures obtained in Bury of the ash-pit system, as carried out there 

 prove that, financially, it is, so far as Bury is concerned, a total and complete 

 failure, as the gross return is only a little over one halfpenny per head of the 



