Hints on drains, traps, closets, sewer gas, and sewage disposal / by P. Hinckes Bird.

  • Peter Hinckes Bird
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints on drains, traps, closets, sewer gas, and sewage disposal / by P. Hinckes Bird. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    2. That plans of such drains and connections be deposited in the charge of the respective local authorities, who shall be bound to exhibit them and supply copies of them to the public on payment of a moderate fee. 3. That the owners of houses be compelled by law to send to the respective local authorities, within a specified time after the passing of the Act, plans of all house drains on an appointed scale. Signed by— 'The Eight Hon. James Stanfield, M.P., Chairman of the Conference. Lord Alfred S. Churchill, Chairman of the Council. Members of the F. A. Abel, F.E.S., President of the Executive Com--] Chemical Society, mittee. Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B. Captain Douglas Galton, E.E., C.B., F.E.S. Lieut.-Colonel E. F. Du-Cane, E.E., C.B., Surveyor-General of Prisons. Postscriptally I may add as an instance of the inordinate prices which have been paid for land, arbitration, law charges, &c., &c., &c., the case of Blackburn, in which they amounted to £30,000—a heavy burden to the ratepayers, and such as quite to mihtate against a sewage farm being profitable ; and in the Echo of April 14th, we read that the ratepayers of Barnsley, in Yorkshire, are almost at boiling point now, so says Mr. Blackburn, a councillor of the town. The cause is this—the costs incurred in a recent case of arbitration between the Cor- poration and a Colonel Wombwell with respect to land required for sewerage purposes at Benton Grange, near Barnsley. The total costs came to £4,839, and Alderman Brady said, in bring- ing the matter before the notice of the Council, included some curious items. Among other charges there was one for a dinner at Greenwich, some of the witnesses refusing to be content with the fare to be had at various noted London houses. Before the Council could get the award in the first instance, they had to pay £622, of which sum about £170 was claimed by each arbi- trator, and £271 by the umpire. The cost of fees to witnesses on the Corporation's side was £985, and on Colonel Wombwell's side £948. It is said that some of the witnesses examined were of European celebrity, and these sent in moderate bills ; while men who had never been heard of till the arbitration had charged in an inconsistent and recldess manner. In addition to the costs of witnesses, the Council had had to pay the legal expenses imposed by Colonel Wombwell. The bill sent in by
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