John Bailey Denton
# John Bailey Denton

John Bailey Denton (1814–1893) M. Inst. C.E.; F.G.S., was a British surveyor and civil engineer.

## Biography

When discussing the value of sewage, Denton records that Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, a chemist, demonstrated that a harvest of 800 pounds (360 kg) of wheat and 900 pounds (410 kg) of barley can be obtained from the nearly 16 pounds (7.3 kg) of nitrogen an adult's body-waste produces yearly. In addition, 9s (£52 at present worth as of 2023) was calculated by Dr. Augustus Voelcker, the consulting chemist for the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to be the annual value of ammonia and phosphates excreted per head.

## Honorary

Honorary member of the R.A.S.S. of Denmark, Sweden, and Hanover.

## List of publications

This list is taken from ODNB and Works by Mr Bailey-Denton, M. Inst. C.E.; F.G.S., in Sewage Disposal (1895).

* (1842) What Can now be Done for British Agriculture?
* (1849) Sewerage of London
* (1854) Land Drainage and drainage Systems
* (1855) Underdrainage of Land; its progress and results (Society of Arts Medal)
* (1857) Road-Making (Prize Essay)
* (1858) The effect of Underdrainage on Arterial Channels and Outfalls
* (1863) The Discharge from Underdrainage (Telford Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers.)
* (1864) The Farm Homesteads of England
* (1865) The importance of Shelter and Covering at Homesteads in certain Districts of Great Britain
* (1865) The Marshes of South Italy
* (1866) The Water Question
* (1868) The Agricultural Labourer
* (1869) Sanitary Works
* (1870) Sewage Farming
* (1871) Sewage the Fertilizer of Land, and Land the Purifier of Sewage
* (1872) Underdrainage and the steps taken to develop and maintain its effects
* (1873) Intermittent Downward Filtration and Irrigation
* (1874) Sanitary Science applied to Towns and Rural Districts
* (1874) Storage of Water
* (1877) Sanitary Engineering
* (1881) Sewage Disposal
