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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 1. Particulars of the Bacteria Beds.
| No. | Name of town or district. | Nature of installation. P.—Permanent, T.—Temporary. | Number of beds. | Distinctive number or name of each bed. | Average or working area of the beds. Square feet. | Measurement of the beds. | Depth of the beds. Feet. | Material and size of the material of which the beds are composed. | Thickness of each layer of material, arranged in their order in the beds, from the top downwards. | Method of under-draining the beds. | Actual or estimated cost of making the beds. | Actual or estimated cost per acre of making the beds. | Cost of treating sewage per million gallons. | ||||||||
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| At top. Feet. | At bottom. Feet. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Accrington | £ | s. | d. | £ | 8. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||||||||||
| p. | 10 | 3,019 | 62 feet in diameter each | 8.5 and 9 | Coke, 2 inch to 3 inch mesh | Half 18 inch perforated earthenware pipes laid on concrete bottom | 2 | 5 | - | 10,890 | - | - | 4 | 6 | |||||||
| (about) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 1,944 | 49 feet 9 inches in diameter each | 3 and 9 | >) >> >> | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Aldershot | p. | Top or primary | 2,146 | 58x37 | 4 | Clinkers, 3/8 inch | 15 inches | Only by the packing of large material. No pipes are used | 250 | — | — | 5,000 | _— | |||||||
| „ varying size | 33 „ | (about) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bottom or secondary | 5,800 | 58x100 | 1.5 | „ generally fine | 220 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| (about) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Acton | T. | 6.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Aylesbury | T. | 4 | ... | 31,740 | Varies | from | 5.0 | Coarse burnt ballast | 9 inch main drains (two mains to each large bed), with double junctions 2 feet apart and 3 inch agricultural pipes arranged in herring-bone fashion | 3,200 | — | — | 6,400 | — | — | 15 | — | — | ||
| 6 | total area | 50 x 30 to | 116x30 | 3.25 | Coke breeze | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Barnsley | T. | 3 | ... | 32,400 | 120 x 90 | 3 | Broken clinker and ashes | ¼ inch mesh... | 9 inches | By land tiles and square longitudinal | 1,343 | 10 | 9 | 1,400 | — | — | ||||
| ½ „ | 9 „ | drains 18 inches by 12 inches | (about) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 „ | 9 ,, | including the open septic tank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1½ „ | 9 „ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Birmingham | T. | 8 | 1 to 8 | 133,656 | 150x150 | 148J x148J | 3 | Coke, 1 inch to 1} inch | Similar | The whole bed is laid on a false bottom, in which there are channels 6 inches by 6 inches and 148 feet long | 48,000 | - | - | 12,000 | — | — | ||||
| 44,552 | 150x150 | 148Jxl48j | 3 | Destructor clinker, 1 i:icl> to If inch | throughout | (about) | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Blackburn | T. | 1 | ... | 4,770 | ... | ... | 5.5 | Coke | Similar | 3 inch agricultural drain tiles laid herring-bone fashion in channels covered with 2 inch stone covers. There is a fall of 18 inches in each bed | ||||||||||
| 1 | ... | 4,770 | ... | ... | 5.5 | Coke breeze | throughout | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Bloxwich district of | T. | 8 | Primary | ... | ... | ... | 2.5 | ½ inch to 1/16inch | Land tiles | 1,000 | - | - | 5,000 | - | ||||||
| Walsall | 8- | Secondary | 25 | ½ inch to dust | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Bristol— At Knowle | T. | 2 | Knowle | 132 each | 22x6 | 22x6 | 6 | Washed clinker from destructor which passed through a 2 inch ring | ••• | No pipes, floor inclined from centre to border | ||||||||||
| At St. John's-lane | T. | 1 | St. John's | 396 | 22½ diameter | 30 diameter | 3 | ||||||||||||||