Minutes of information collected with reference to works for the removal of soil water or drainage of dwelling houses and public edifices and for the sewerage and cleansing of the sites of towns / General Board of Health.

  • General Board of Health.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Minutes of information collected with reference to works for the removal of soil water or drainage of dwelling houses and public edifices and for the sewerage and cleansing of the sites of towns / General Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    which the works may be so suspended shall be allowed to the contractor in computing the time of completion of his contract. Notice to contractor for defective work, fyc, and proceedings thereon if not remedied.—If at anytime it shall appear that t lie works, or any part thereof, arc not being executed in conformity with the contract, or in a sound and workmanlike manner, and if satisfactory progress shall not be made therein, the engineer shall give written notice to the contractor, and if he shall refuse to amend the defective work, or comply with any order in relation thereto, or if in three days after notice he shall not have adopted ample means for the satisfactory prosecution of the work, the Local Board shall have full power to take the whole of works out of the hands of the contractor, and proceed with the execution thereof, and all extra costs and charges which may arise shall be paid for by the contractor. Date of completion of contract, and penalty for delay.—The time fixed for the completion of the whole of the works of this contract is from the date of the engineer's order to commence them, and the contractor shall payas liquidated damages for every day that any part of the said work shall by his default remain unfinished after that time, whether the works shall be in course of completion by the contractor or by the Local Board or others on their behalf. Contractor to keep works in good order.—The contractor shall be held liable for keeping in repair and good order the whole of the works for six months after the date of completion. Payments.—Payments will be made to the contractor in monthly instal- ments, on the certificate of the engineer of the value of the works executed in the preceding month, subject to a deduction of 25 per cent, upon such value. Full payment of the balance will be made upon the certificate of the engineer that the contract has been fulfilled to his satisfaction, six months after the date of completion, subject to all legal and equitable deductions. Additions to Specification for Eabthwokk, &c. in Contracts which in- clude brick sewers, gullies, and other works appertaining thereto. All bricks employed in this contract shall be good, sound, well burnt stocks of uniform shape.* The ground shall be excavated of the proper widths and depths indicated by the drawings, in such manner and of such lengths only at one time as shall be directed by the surveyor. The invert of the brick sewer, as shown in drawing No. , is to be formed of blocks, each 18 inches long, and of such width as may be directed to be prepared in proper boxes, and well grouted up with thick cement grout in the boxes, and also after being fixed in the work. These blocks are to be made at least ten days before they are used, and they are not to be used until the cement has become quite hard. irZh° S!iail bf formcd in the be8t manner> wel1 Uncled. The K^ f?* fl9h W,Uh thc face of thc work> and sha11 not ex<*ec!, m any part of the interior of thc work, one eighth of an inch in thickness. tl,rinJUn °DS aDd connexions of drains with the sewer shall be made in the manner snown in drawing No. t^laCWGrS °r -d,rains met with> or cut through, shall be connected with me new sewer with approved junctions as indicated, and with such brick- 8eCe«JhSbe raSting.' F°CUre thCm' * *]M b° Specified that the brick* &r
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