72 



REPORT 1870. 



liretou's Sewage Farm. — Statenjent of Average daily quantity of Sewage 

 pumped on to Land, and of Effluent Water received therefrom. 



Weekly 

 return. 



Date 



(inclusive) 

 18/0. 



No 



'3 



June 12 to 



June i8 

 June 19 to 



June 25... 

 June 26 to 



July 2 ... 

 July 3 to 



July 9 ... 

 July 10 to 



July 16... 

 July 17 to 



July 23... 

 July 24 to 



July 30... 

 July 31 to 



Aug. 6 ... 

 Aug. 7 to 



Aug. 13... 

 Aug. 14 to 



Aug. 20... 

 Aug. 21 to 



Aug. 27... 

 Aug. 28 to 



Sept. 3 .. 

 Sept. 4 to 



Sept. 10.. 



Average 



tempe- 

 rature 

 thereof. 



63 

 62 

 63 



65 

 65 



66 

 67 

 66 

 66 

 64 

 63 

 62 



Average 

 daily quan 



tity of 

 sewage dis 



tributed 

 over land. 



galls. 



343,886 



324.143 

 317,600 

 326,357 



334.457 

 313.114 

 352,929 



379.471 

 303.371 

 314.857 

 342,086 

 360,800 

 360,500 



Average 

 tempe- 

 rature 

 thereot. 



° F. 

 55 

 63 



60 



66 

 67 

 66 

 67 

 67 

 65 

 64 



63 

 62 



Proportion 



of c69uent 



water to 



sewajre 



distributed. 



•319 

 •289 



■274 



•327'' 



b 

 ■325 



•326 <= 

 '296 d 



■353* 



f 



423 



•347 » 

 •321 

 •289' 

 •329J 



"■ Tank overflowed July 9, 2250 gallons. 



^ Effluent water turned into river July 16, 17,200 gallons. 



'^ Effluent water turned into river July 21 and 23, 160,300 gallons. 



d July 26, storm tank overflowed, 170,000 gallons; on 27th, 13,500 gallons: portion 

 of effluent water run into river during week 84,100 gallons. 



e August 1, storm tank overflowed, 300,000 gallons; portion of effluent water run into 

 river, 512,700 gallons. 



f Portion of effluent water turned into river during week, 622,500 gallons. 



^ Portion of effluent water turned into river during week, 501,300 gallons. 



h Portion of effluent water turned into river August 21 and 23 to 27, 504,300 gallons. 



' Portion of effluent water tiu-ned into river every day, 418,340 gallons. 



J Portion of effluent water run into river every day, 624,100 gallons. 



D. — Kvperiments on the Air in Sewers and Drains. By Dr. W. J. Ettssell, 



Sejjt. 5, 1870. 



On the 16th of August I visited the sewer in Cambridge Place, Paddington, 

 and I passed from it into the large sewer in Praed Street. The atmosphere 

 iu both was warm and damp, but there was very little smell. As the only 

 direct entrance into the sewers is by the ventilating-holes in the streets, to 

 obtaiu the air of the sewer for examination some lengths of glass tubing were 

 fastened together and lowered into the sewer in Cambridge Place at the opening 

 nearest to St. Mary's Hospital, so that the end was about 2 feet above the water 

 iu the sewer. A pair of bellows was used for pumping up the air, each open- 



