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Report of the Judges on the 
the number of deaths which have occurred. An examination of 
this table will show that the rate of mortality on an average of the 
number of years which these farms have been in operation does not 
exceed three per thousand per annum. This is a very low rate, 
but in all probability it may not be lower than would be found 
in an equal number of selected lives taken from an agricultural 
district. The results of the sanitary inquiry show that sewage- 
farming is not detrimental to life or health. 
A statement made by the manager of the Croydon Sewage 
Farm that the horses on that farm were very subject to grease, 
caused us to make special inquiry into this subject, and we found 
that on no other sewage farm were the horses subject to this par- 
ticular disease, or to any other disease ; but that both horses and 
other live stock were very healthy on all the farms we examined. 
Sewage-farming is becoming an important agricultural feature 
in the country, there being at the present time about one hundred 
such farms in operation. The following detailed reports relating 
to the management of the various sewage farms entered in com- 
petition will, we trust, be of some value to all interested in 
sewage operations. 
Baldwin Latham. 
Clare Sewell Read. 
Thos. H. Thuesfield. 
Class I. — Bedford Sewage Faem. 
This farm is held under five separate owners, to whom the fol- 
lowing rents are paid by the Corporation of Bedford : — 
OWNEKS. 
Acreages. 
Rent Paid. 
A. E. P. 
s. 
d. 
43 2 11 
196 
0 
0 
Captain Polhill Turner, M.P. .. 
80 0 0. 
426 
0 
0 
Eev. J. G. C. Campion 
20 1 27 
130 
0 
0 
Corporation of Bedford 
27 2 34 
124 
0 
0 
11 1 30 
61 
10 
0 
183 0 22 
927 
10 
0 
Add paid to London and North- Western j 
Railway Company for Sewer crossing under > 
1 
0 
0 
£928 
10 
0 
The farm was established in 1868, and is managed for 
the Corporation of Bedford by Mr. J. H. Collett, and it re- 
