File:Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending (1898) (14576760620).jpg

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Title: Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Rhode Island. State Board of Health
Subjects: Vital Statistics
Publisher: Providence : E. L. Freeman & Co., printers to the state
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1898.) skckktakys be POET. 27 removed in this work, or an average of L90.3 cubic yards per acre. 28,700lineal feel r ditch were cut in furrowing the beds. In .Inly rather more extensive work than usual was done. From bedsl.•_-:;- i-C-1•_ and 13 all the poor sand, amounting to 103 cubic yards, wasagain removed from the surface preparatory to leveling tip sludge beds1-2-U and 4, and adding to the area of the beds devoted to this work bymaking use of bed f> for the same purpose. As it was necessary to lower the level of bed 6 before it could be used asa sludge bed, the sand taken from this bed was used to raise the level ofbeds 1-2-3 and 4. About 265 cubic yards of good sand were taken from 0and spread over the other four beds. On account of the amount of sludge that was regularly turned on beds1-2-3 and 4, the level of the ground water in these beds remained very high,and it was deemed best to lay onderdrains. Up to the present time theonly underdrain which had been provi

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