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London County Council 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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CONTENTS.
DIVISION II.—BACTERIOLOGICAL.
I.—Summary of Contents of Previous Reports.
1. Summary of the Contents of the First Report.
2. Summary of the Contents of the Second Report.
3. Summary of the Contents of the Supplement to the Second Report.
II.—The Experiments on Bacterial Treatment at Barking.
1. The Coke and Ragstone Beds.
2. The Double Coke-beds.
III.—The Experiments on Bacterial Treatment at Crossness.
1. Further Experiments with the Effluents from the 4-foot, 6-foot
(Primary) and 6-foot (Secondary) Coke-beds.
2. Experiments with the Effluents from the 13-foot Coke-bed at Crossness.
IV.—Streptococci in the Barking and Crossness Crude Sewage and in the
Effluents from the Bacterial Coke-beds.
V.—Experiments on Animals.
VI.—Final Conclusions.
1. General Conclusions.
2. Biological Conclusions.
VII.—Addenda.
1. The Vitality of the Cholera Bacillus, B. Prodigiosus and Staphylococcus
Pyogenes Aureus in Crossness Crude Sewage.
2. The Inoculation of the 13-foot Coke-bed at Crossness with a Special
Sewage Microbe.
3. The Effect, as regards the Resultant Quality of the Effluent from the
Bacterial Beds, of the addition of certain Chemical Substances to the
Barking Crude Sewage.
VIII.—Engfavings of Micro-photographs and Diagrammatic Drawings.