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Boring operation to connect the drainage system near Grays Inn Lane to the main sewage system. Wood engraving.

Royal Hospital, Greenwich, with many small houses either side and ships in the foreground. Engraving.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.

The construction of the great sewage tunnels, near Old Ford, Bow. Wood engraving, 1859, after F. Thompson.

Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses either side. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1753.

Rats living in the sewers. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

The engine-house at Crossness and the outfall of the southern Metropolitan sewerage. Wood engraving by J.M. Williams, 1865.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses to either side. Engraving, 174-.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving, 1753.

Specification of David Gill : deodorizing sewer gas.

On the exciting cause of the Asiatic cholera and  the means to be adopted to prevent its spread / by Michael Thos. Sadler.

Specification of William Parry and John Frearson : treating sewage.

Specification of William Strang : separating sewage.

Practical suggestions by Mr. Rogers Field, M. Inst. C.E., as to water supply, drainage, and sewage disposal for lunatic asylums / issued by the Commissioners in Lunacy.

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Specification of David Gill : deodorizing sewer gas.

On the exciting cause of the Asiatic cholera and the means to be adopted to prevent its spread / by Michael Thos. Sadler.

Specification of William Parry and John Frearson : treating sewage.

Specification of William Strang : separating sewage.

Practical suggestions by Mr. Rogers Field, M. Inst. C.E., as to water supply, drainage, and sewage disposal for lunatic asylums / issued by the Commissioners in Lunacy.