| Description | Bundle of correspondence regarding condition of sewage works in Prescot and a small collection of papers and reports on sewage purification. Booklets included in bundle: 'The Bacterial Purification of Sewage in the Hydrolytic Tank and Oxidising Beds' by W. Owen Travis and Edwin Ault; 'Some Principals Underlying the Design of Small Sewage Installations: A Lecture Delivered Before the Edinburgh Architectural Association' by Gilbert J. Fowler (March 1907); 'The Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal: An Impression' by Gilbert J. Fowler (February 1909); 'Special Features of the Travis Hydrolytic System of Sewage Tanks Being Constructed at Norwich' by Arthur E. Collins (May 1909); 'Some Observations on the Chemistry and Bacteriology of Sewage Purification' by David Sommerville (November 1909); and four annual reports of the Stratford-upon-Avon sewage disposal works (1910-1911, 1911-1912, 1912-1913, 1913-1914).
Correspondence and other papers include: rough notes, doodles and estimations of payments; correspondence with W. Owen Travis, of Hampton, Middlesex, a chemist analysing samples from the Prescot sewage works; letter from Gilbert J. Fowler about his lectures on sewage works and enclosing the two booklets credited to him that are also in this bundle; correspondence with Taylor, Wallin & Taylor, Civil Engineers, Newcastle-on-Tyne, concerning storm overflows and distributors at the sewage works; letter to G.H. Cross, solicitor to Prescot U.D.C., from Edwin Ault, Civil Engineer, Wrexham and London, asking if Mr. Cross would reply to enquiries about the Hydrolytic Sewage Tank from the President of the Commission into sewerage in St. Petersburg; table of gauging's taken at the Prescot Sewage Works, 30 May 1911; letter from the Secretariat of the city of Troyes, France, with questions (attached) about the workings of the Prescot Sewage Works. |