This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... small a matter as the proportion of ashbins which are left open to the weather. In a paper like this, not special but general average figu1es must be adopted, and that round number which seems to me to most fairly represent the average yield of ashbin refuse per head per annum under good sanitary conditions, and in a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... small a matter as the proportion of ashbins which are left open to the weather. In a paper like this, not special but general average figu1es must be adopted, and that round number which seems to me to most fairly represent the average yield of ashbin refuse per head per annum under good sanitary conditions, and in a water-closeted district, is 4 cwt. per head per annum--less, if anything--it being understood that this is ashbin refuse such as is burnable in a Destructor. Prof. Forbes gives the composition of Paddington refuse at 3" 6 cwt. per inhabitant per annum. OUT OP EVERY 10,000 TONS. Tons. Ashes ' 5260 Breezo or cinders 2880 Animal and vegetable refuse 1420 Pottery, &c 290 Coal....' 18 Bones 25 Bags 42 Iron 86 Bran and pewter.... White glass" Black glass "' Mr. Jos. Russell, in a paper read before the Sanitary Institute on February 10th, 1892, gave the following analysis of the composition of average London ashbin refuse. (I have put it in the same form as that of Prof. Forbes, for convenience of comparison.) OUT OP EVERY 10,000 TONS. Tons. Breeze (cinders and ashes).... 6,369 Pine dust 1'961 Vegetable, animal, and various mineral matters.... 461 Waste paper 428 Straw and fibrous material.... 322 Bottles 96 Coal and coke.... ' Tins 79 55 Crockery Bones 48 Broken glass 47 Rags 89 Iron-1 I have given these two analyses as showing fairly well the composition of the ashbin refuse to which the figure 4 cwt. per annum per head of population applies. One can easily see from them how, in a very poor neighbourhood, the quantity would probably diminish by the decrease of coal burned per head, and by increased economy in its use, and how seriously a decrease in this item of coal consumption would affect the calorific value of the residue, es...
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