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"June 29th, 1886.
Your Surveyor reported upon Messrs
Manlove's, Fryer & Co.'s Cell Destructor, referring to one
that had been erected at the
City Sewers Depot,
Commercial Road, Waterloo Bridge.
This Destructor was principally used for the
getting rid of the Soft Core only from the Sifted Dust and
the Offensive Sweepings of the streets and markets.
About £12,000 have been expended on the ten Cells
and Chimney Shaft.
Approximate cost of Destructor 1s. 4d. per Load.
No Dust is consumed.
Ealing Local Board of Health.
Your Surveyor reported he had visited the
above. Manlove's Cell Destructor had been adopted for
burning the combined mixture of Sewer Sludge, Dust
Sweepings, Street Sweepings, Soft Core, &c., &c.
Four Cells, each costing about £300=£1,200, Chimney
Shaft, £700. Quantity here dealt with is very small
compared with Camberwell, but what is, is well and
scientifically done.
Whitechapel Board of Works.
Your Surveyor reported that he had visited
the Destructor then nearly completed, and proposed repeating
the visit when the Apparatus was in operation.
The second visit to the above was made in
company of your Chairman, Mr. Thomas Foster, on the