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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.
| So. | Name of town or district. | Nature of installation. | Number of beds. | Distinctive number or name of each bed. | Average or working area of the beds. | Measurement of the beds. | Depth of the beds. | 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. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At top. Feet. | At bottom. Feet. | |||||||||||||||||||
| P.—Permanent. T.—Temporary. | Square feet. | Feet. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Huddersfield | T. | 2 | Coarse | 1,600 | 40 x 40 | 40 x 40 | 3.5 | Clinker, 5/8 inch to 5 inch mesh | 3 feet 6 inches | Land tiles | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
| Fine | 1,800 | ... | ... | 3.25 | Clinker, ¼ inch to 5/8 inch mesh | 9 inches | „ „ | |||||||||||||
| Clinker, j inch to H inch mesh | 1 foot 11 inches | |||||||||||||||||||
| Clinker, rough ... | 7 inches | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | No. 10 (One bed given as | 1,800 a type) | 48 x 38 | 48 x 38 | 3.25 | Furnace clinker, \ inch to | inch mesh | 10 inches | 11 J> | ||||||||||||
| Furnace clinker, j inch to 1^ inch mesh | 2 feet | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rough clinker ... | 5 inches | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | Hyde | ... | 2 | Coarse bed | 288 | 16.5 x 18.5 | 15.5 x l7.6 | 3.75 | Destructor clinker, -j®,- inch to ^ inch mesh Destructor clinker, linch to 3 inch, mesh | 3 inches (over part only) | 11 11 | |||||||||
| Fine bed | 288 | 16.5 x 18.5 | 15.5 x 17.5 | 3.75 | Destructor clinker, | 6 inches | J? 11 | |||||||||||||
| -J3, inch to \ inch mesli Destructor clinker, | 3 feet 3 inches | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ... | 45 (diameter) | ... | ... | 9 | j®, inch to 1 inch Coke rejected by 3 inch mesh | 9 feet | Half tiles on bricks, concrete floors | 150 | 180 | ||||||||||
| 24 | Keighley | T. | 2 | Rough bed | 100 | 10 x 10 | 10 x 10 | 3.25 | Coke, 1 inch to 3 inch mesh | Land tiles | 4,500 | |||||||||
| Fine bed | ... | ... | ... | ... | j inch to 1 inch mesh | 5,000 | - | 3,540 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Kettering | T. | 1 | ... | 210 | 21 x 10 | 21 x 10 | 3 | Gravel pebbles | 3 inches | Land drain tiles, 2 inches indiameter laid herring-bone fashion to 3 inch central drain | |||||||||
| P. | 2 | ... | 16,268 | 170 x 102 | 162 x 94 | 4 | Coke ¼ inch to 1 inch mesh Coke breeze, 3/16 inch to 1½ inch mesh | 2 feet 9 inches | ||||||||||||
| 4 feet | Main drain with cemented joints up centre of each bed, 12 inches in diameter for one-half the length, 9 inches for the other. Side drains, land tiles 2 inches in diameter, butt jointed, 5 feet apart, laid herring-bone fashion. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 16,268 | 170 x 102 | 162 x 94 | 4 | Coke breeze, inch to 1½ inch mesh | 2 feet | (about) | |||||||||||||
| 1 | ... | 12,782 | 170 x 81 | 162 x 73 | 4 | Burnt ballast, ½ inch to 2 inch mesh | ||||||||||||||
| A layer of ircm furnace slag, 2 inches in thickness, was placed on the top of each bed. | 2 inch mesh | 2 feet | ||||||||||||||||||