First report of the commissioners : appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence.
- Great Britain. Metropolitan Sanitary Commission
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: First report of the commissioners : appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Pag* Improper proceedings of certain Commissioners 147 Average attendance ofCommissioners 148 Mischievous effects of division of authorities 149 Numerous attendances on dinner days 150 Mr. Walker's admiration of the Westminster sewers 151 Imperfect sewerage of the new Houses of Parliament 15- Salaries of public officers in the reign of Henry VIII. ....... 153 Non-attendance of the committee of accounts 154 Charges against the Westminster Commission confirmed 155 Alteration of surveyor's reports by chairman • 150 Sir George Phillips's complaint 157 Specimen of the current business of a court day 158 Effect of remunerating surveyors by commission on works 159 Present sewers worse than cesspools 160 Higli charges for private drains 161 Advantage of one Commission for the whole metropolis 1G2 No. 13.—Mr. J. Phillips, Surveyor to the Westminster Court of Sewers. Defective construction of Westminster sewers 163 Ruinous condition of the old sewers, and their tendency to accumulate refuse 164 Opposition by the court to the surveyor's suggestions 166 Houses infected with foul air from sewers and drains 167 Interference of Commissioners with officers ]0S Improvements by a clerk of the works not recognised 169 Sewers of Westminster, and part of Middlesex 170 Inferior materials adopted through interference of architects 172 Specimen of a chairman's amendments ... 173 Saving effected from the adoption of improvements 174 Limits of economy not yet reached 175 Advantages of combination of works 176 Flushing necessary where fall deficient 177 Mode of avoiding deposit in large sewers 178 Water, the best means of conveying refuse 179 Division of the run of waters preferred l'^O Reduction of size of sewers, if good supply of water 181 Tubular system of sewerage preferred 182 Theoretical writers in error as to velocities of streams ....... 183 The sizes of sewers extravagantly large, both in practice and theory . . . 1S4 Calculation of the capacity of sewers 186 Method of gauging the discharge of sewers 187 Calculations of velocities of streams in different forms of channel . . . 188 Theory would exeeed practice in size of sewers • 190 Necessity for extensive range of experiments 191 Necessity of good outfall 192 Proposed plan of drainage of Westminster 193 Estimate of complete drainage of Westminster—form of sewers .... 194 Proposed outlet sewer at Richmond-terrace 196 Langley-court—contrast of efficient and inefficient sewers '07 Control over house-drains most essential 198 Importance of survey—extract from the Builder' 199 Expense and inefficiency of present works 200 Piecemeal work liable to error 201 Sewers miserably bad—house-drains far worse 2C2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21011527_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
