§ MR. LIDDELLsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to certain experiments recently conducted on a large scale at Tottenham, for disintegrating the impurities of Sewage Water by an admixture of alum; whether the Government have called the attention 308 of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the successful results of these experiments, with a view to the remedy of the evils complained of at Barking as arising from the system of Metropolitan Drainage; and, whether he will lay upon the Table of the House any Report of these experiments, and Copy of any Correspondence which has taken place upon the subject?
§ MR. GATHORNE HARDYsaid, in reply, that the experiments at Tottenham had been carried on by the local authorities who had sent him a letter, from which he gathered that the experiments had not been so satisfactory as his hon. Friend seemed to suppose. He thought he should be going out of his way if he were to express an opinion on the subject. Two experiments had been made by different persons, and, as far as he could gather, they had not been so successful as experiments made with lime. At present the fertilizing properties of the residuum had not been ascertained. No Report on the subject had come before the Government.