[2] Published by Longmans, London, 1874. Third edition published by R. Potter, Wrexham, 1885.
[3] ‘Facts and Comments,’ by Herbert Spencer. Williams and Norgate, London, 1902.
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
SEWAGE TREATMENT.
By H. ALFRED ROECHLING,
M. Inst. C.E., etc.
I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
At the request of Lieut.-Colonel A. S. Jones, V.C., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., who has done yeoman service in this matter, I have great pleasure in putting down some observations on this old but ever controversial question of sewage treatment.
Colonel Jones has done more than anyone else living to establish correct views on sewage farming, and he has lately changed the Government sewage marshes at Aldershot into a veritable “Garden of Eden,” watered by the waters from Aldershot Camp, growing healthy crops, and causing not the slightest nuisance. After many struggles, even the milk from the dairy cows is now recognised as good and supplied to the military hospitals. This is an achievement of which anyone might be proud; and all those who have been over the farm during the time of the “deluge,” and can now study the order and system evolved out of chaos by Colonel Jones will testify to this! It is pleasant to record that the War Office have recognised Colonel Jones’ work for them by having appointed
him quite recently to manage all the sewage disposal works in the Aldershot district. This will involve the laying out of irrigation works in eight separate places, in some of which artificial methods of sewage purification have been tried and found wanting.