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GENERAL SCOTT, in his recent paper at the Society of Arts, entitled “Suggestions for Dealing with the Sewage of London,” deserves credit for having drawn attention to a subject which in itself must have especial interest for all residents in the metropolis, but which, from the manner in which he has dealt with it, possesses further attractions for those who have made the scientific aspects of the sewage question their study, in that he has really attacked this much-debated problem in an entirely new direction, and has in so far entered upon fresh ground. We do not remember that any previous investigator has set himself the task of examining into the composition and character of the suspended matters of water carried sewage coupled with the possibility of the mechanical separation by simple subsidence (1) of the heavier mineral particles or the detritus, and (2) of the lighter flocculent particles, which latter, consisting as they do mainly of the fecal matters, possess a far higher manurial value than the heavier substances washed from the roads and pavements.
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The Sewage of London . Nature 21, 133–135 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021133a0
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