The Disposal of Sewage by Small Towns and Villages. 91 
The following table shows the cost of draining those parishes 
of the Brixworfch Union where a complete system of sewers has 
been adopted ; there are other villages which have been only 
partially sewered : — 
Xamc of parish In the 
Briwvorth Uuiou 
Population 
in 18S1 
Date of 
Works 
Cost, 
including 
land 
Extent of land 
irrigated 
How- 
cropped 
Brampton Chapel 
233 
1880-1 
£ 
407 
Half an acre 
Osiers 
Brixworth . . . 
1,183 
1876-8 
822 
One acre 
Osiers 
Harlestone . . . 
569 
1878 
750 
One acre 
Ash-poles 
Moulton .... 
1,483 
1871-8 
980 
One acre 
Osiers 
Spraltou. . . . 
817 
1886 
810 
One acre 
Ash-poles 
Walgrave , . . 
603 
1874-8 
673 
One acre 
Osiers 
The sewering of Whissencline, a village of Rutland contain- 
ing 731 inhabitants, was completed last year, at the following 
cost : — 
Sewering Whissendine village (including 140/. for out- £ 
fall and osier bed — 1 acre) . . . . . 849 
Engineer and clerk of works 120 
Compensation to occupiers of land crossed by sewers to 
outfall, about 25 
Total £1,000 
The inspection was made after a very heavy rainfall, when 
the Whissendine Brook, celebrated in many hunting annals, 
was overflowing its banks. The flood had just reached the 
lower part of the freshly-planted acre of osiers, upon which the 
sewage is delivered, but none of it escaped unfiltered. The 
fall of the main sewer from the village to the filter-bed is 1 in 
400, and there are two flushing-tanks from spring drains. The 
Inspector of Xuisances of the Oakham Union is the only officer 
employed, but a village superintendent would appear almost a 
necessity. 
Ashwell, also in Rutland, with a population of about 200, has 
been lately sewered. The first contract was for 352?. ; but an 
extension of the chief sewer, and a larger filter-bed, cost another 
l'iO?. The main drain is easily flushed, from the brook which 
flows through this village, by means of a sluice-door ; but there 
is only one filter-bed, its three compartments being filled with 
stone and gravel — so that even the clarification of the sewage 
is by no means perfect. 
The town of East Dereham, Norfolk, contains about 0,000 
inhabitants, and is well and cheaply sewered. The sewage 
flows by its gravity into a valley, and empties itself, without 
any preparation beyond a small settling-tank and grating, upon 
