28 Refuse Disposal and Sewage Purification. 



electric lighting and electric traction to perfection, and he 

 thought the time had come when they in this country might 

 profit by that experience, and go in at once for electric tram- 

 ways and electric lighting. 



Mr. Otto Jaffe, J.P., T.C., said that, speaking as a Town 

 Councillor, he was in the unfortunate position of not being a 

 member of either the Improvement Committee or the Public 

 Health Committee, but perhaps he had the advantage of being 

 able to speak more freely about the subject. He might say 

 that the Town Council had decided to adopt refuse destructors, 

 and the only question at issue was what was the best kind of 

 destructor to get ? The deputation that had visited various 

 centres in England in connection with the subject had not yet 

 made up their minds on that point, but he believed they were 

 gradually coming to a decision. He might say that the 

 destructors at first would not be put up at the electric station, 

 but would be erected at the outfall pumping station, where the 

 power could be used in the pumping. Mr. Chambers had 

 estimated the amount ot the refuse at 30,000 tons per year, but 

 he (Mr. Jaffe) understood that, with road scrapings, the refuse 

 amounted to 100,000 tons a year, and the plant which the 

 Corporation would put down would deal with the destruction 

 of one-fourth of that quantity. Some people condemned the 

 main drainage system, but, as the Lord Mayor had told the 

 deputation at the last meeting of the Corporation, there was no 

 doubt that when the present system was put down it was done 

 under the best technical advice of the time. If the citizens 

 agitated he was quite sure that the Corporation would see its 

 way very soon to chemically precipitate the sewage at the out- 

 fall station. There was no doubt that when the main drainage 

 scheme was designed it was assumed that the sewage would 

 run further into the tidal part of the lough than it did now. 

 In other words, the tide brought it back sooner and nearer 

 than was anticipated. He feared that Mr. Chambers's estimate 

 of ^4,500 a year as the cost of precipitating the sewage was 

 one-half lower than the actual cost would be ; for he (Mr. Jaffe) 



