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" The author has investigated the subject by suspending in septic tanks a large number of solid organic substances, such as cooked vegetables, cabbages, turnips, potatoes, peas, beans, bread, various forms of cellulose, flesh in the form of the dead bodies... "
Report - Page 26
by New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1916
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Principles of Sewage Treatment

William Philipps Dunbar - 1908 - 376 pages
...large scale, but only by moans of specially designed experiments. Solubility of Organic Substances. — The author has investigated the subject by suspending...bread, various forms of cellulose, flesh in the form of the dead bodies of animals, skinned and unskinned, various kinds of fat, bones, cartilage, etc., and...
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Sewage Disposal

Leonard Parker Kinnicutt, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Robert Winthrop Pratt - 1910 - 490 pages
...decomposition a description of Dunbar's experiments is well worth noting. Dunbar says (Dunbar, 1908) : " The author has investigated the subject by suspending...bread, various forms of cellulose, flesh in the form of the dead bodies of animals, skinned and unskinned, various kinds of fat, bones, cartilage, etc., and...
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Sewage Disposal

Leonard Parker Kinnicutt, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Robert Winthrop Pratt - 1910 - 466 pages
...cabbages, turnips, potatoes, peas, beans, bread, various forms of cellulose, flesh in the form of the dead bodies of animals, skinned and unskinned, various kinds of fat, bones, cartilage, etc., and has shown that many of these substances are almost completely dissolved in from three to four weeks....
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Transactions, Volumes 7-9

American Society of Agricultural Engineers - 1913 - 814 pages
...Civil Engineering at Dartmouth, and President of the New Hampshire State Board of Health. He says: 'The author has investigated the subject by suspending...unskinned, various kinds of fat, bones, cartilage, etc., and has shown that many of these substances are completely dissolved in frqm three to four weeks. They...
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Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire ..., Volume 24

1916 - 366 pages
...or light. The nature of this process was thus described by an English authority, Dunbar, in 1908: t "The author has investigated the subject by suspending...found before. See paper by BT Ashley in Engineering Newst Jan. 31, 1907, p. 119; also testimony of HF Shade in Engineering News, Feb . 20, 1908. Also ease...
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Sewage Disposal

Leonard Parker Kinnicutt, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Robert Winthrop Pratt - 1919 - 576 pages
...tanks a large number of solid organic substances, such as cooked vegetables, cabbages, turnips, 137 potatoes, peas, beans, bread, various forms of cellulose, flesh in the form of the dead bodies of animals, skinned and unskinned, various kinds of fat, bones, cartilage, etc., and...
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Septic System Owner's Manual

Lloyd Kahn, Blair Allen, Julie Jones - 2000 - 180 pages
...Dunbar conducted tests on the decomposition of vegetable and animal matter in septic tanks. He stated, "The author has investigated the subject by suspending...unskinned, various kinds of fat, bones, cartilage, etc., and has shown that many of these substances are almost completely dissolved in from three to four weeks....
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