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The Purification of Sewage; being a brief Account of the Scientific Principles of Sewage Purification and their Practical Application Sewerage The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems

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THE question of the hour is-What steps are to be -L taken for the disintegration of sewage without the addition of chemicals? Going a little outside this, Dr. Sidney Barwise has collected a certain amount of inform ation which he thinks may be useful to his fellow medica officers of health. He points out that during recen years

The Purification of Sewage; being a brief Account of the Scientific Principles of Sewage Purification and their Practical Application.

By Sidney Barwise, Medical Officer of Health to the Derbyshire County Council. Pp. xi + 150. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1898.)

Sewerage. The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems.

By A. Prescott Folwell, American Member Society of Civil Engineers. First Edition. Pp. x + 372. (New York: John Wiley and Sons. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1898.)

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The Purification of Sewage; being a brief Account of the Scientific Principles of Sewage Purification and their Practical Application Sewerage The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems. Nature 59, 363–364 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059363a0

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