164 TlMEHRl, 
Pin. Anna Regina, Essequibo, suggesting that the So- 
ciety should call for papers on the subject of getting rid 
of the nuisance created by the lees on sugar estates. 
The letter was as follows : — 
" The proprietor of this estate has for some time been very anxious to 
adopt some arrangement for getting rid of the nuisance created by the 
lees and washing of buildings getting into the draining trenches of the 
estate. Mr. I. R. Tille}' has favoured me with a tender for 3000 feet of 
6 inch cast-iron piping, and a steam pumping engine to throw 200 gal- 
lons a minute, to send the lees and all the drainings of the buildings 
direct to sea. The pump he proposes would be of such a description 
as to withstand the corrosive action of the lees, and the pump and pipes 
would be occasionally washed out with pure water, which he believes 
would cause both to last for many years. Mr. Tilley's proposed arrange- 
ment would cost a large sum of money, but I would be inclined to 
advise the proprietor of Anna Regina to adopt it, if I were reasonably 
sure that it would answer the purpose desired. I have sufficient 
confidence in Mr. Tilley to believe that he would succeed in supplying 
a comparatively lasting apparatus, which would remove all the lees 
and drainage of the buildings direct to the sea without any getting 
into the drainage trenches. But on two subjects I am in doubt, and I 
would be very much obliged if the Central Board of Health could assist 
me with opinion or advice on these subjects: — Firstly, I do not know 
whether it would suffice to throw the lees &c, over the sea- dam and 
drop it at high water mark at neap tides. Secondly, I am in doubt 
whether the removal of all objectionable matter direct to the sea would 
effectually remove the nuisance, which it is proposed to pump over the 
sea-dam, at 100 roods from any drainage or other outlet. But it seems 
to me probable that an objectionable deposit would be left on the mud 
fiat at low water, in which case the prevailing wind would tend to 
bring any unpleasant smell back to the Bush-lot village. I would be 
grateful if the Board would put me in the way of dealing with the lees 
nuisance at a moderate cost, if it does not approve of Mr. Tilley's 
scheme. Might I suggest that the Central Board of Health would be 
doing a favour to others who arc in search of information as I am, by 
getting the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society to call for 
papers on the subject of the best way of dealing with lees or other 
