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 King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![Page Power to build sewers desirable—rates 386 Powers desirable to construct house-drains 387 Responsibility of Commissioners for constructing bad works 388 Noxious eflpiect of cesspools—control over water supply . 389 No. 29.—Mr. J. Beek, Surveyor to the Tower Hamlets Commission of Sewers. Vv'ork executed in the Tower Hamlets Commission since 1844 390 Description and cost of sewers—size determined by custom 391 Impediments to house-drainage—gauging sewers neglected . . . . . 392 Cost of cleansing sewers—powers required . . . • 393 Same sewers'rates in uudrained as in drained districts 394 Sewers closed by tide seven hours out of twelve 395 Sewers have drained the wells—cleansing during cholera 39fi Evils from sewers exaggerated—partial powers contemplated 397 General survey not contemplated—low levels taken .398 Great amount of disease ascribed to bad drainage • 399 Imperfect measures of cleansing during the prevalence of cholera . . • . 400 No. 30.— William Baker, jun., Esq., Clerk to the Poplar Marsh Commission of Sewers. Works of the Poplar Marsh commission 401 Considerations as to local management of drainage works 402 Objections to combinations of works advanced 403 Particulars of the stone tramway of the Commercial-road 404 Mr. James Walker's experiments on the tramway 405 General sewers'rate made over the whole district 406 Reasons for the extension of the Poplar Marsh level 407 Powers for borrowing money repayable by instalments desirable . . . , 408 Advantages of consolidation of paving boards 4O9 Consolidation of paving and drainage works questioned 410 Meetings of the court—cleansing of the sewers 411 Traffic and tolls on the Commercial-road 41-2 No. 31.— C. A. Smith, Esq., Clerk to the Greenwich Commission of Sewers. Greenwich Commission of sewers—Imperfect plans and levels .... 413 Amount of rates—great difBculties of drainage 4]4 Present rental—complaints of drainage in Lewisham 4),'5 Great importance of survey to suburbs 416 Wretched state of the drainage near the Ravensbouvnc 417 No. 32.—Lieut. Col. Hall, R.E. Examination of the plans of the several sewers commissions 418 Condemnation of existing plans—proposed Ordnance survey 419 No. 33.—Captain W. Yolland, R.E, Description of plan required for drainage purposcH 420 Comparative cost of Ordnance and private surveys 421 Comparative rates of remuneration 422 Description of Ordnance surveys now in execution 421!](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21296935_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
