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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![Have you any means of judging of the difference of expense between No 33. the Ordnance Survey and surveys taken by private individuals?—I am ^^Capiain not aware, at present, of the existence of any surveys executed by any civil surveyors whatever, that can compete in quality of execution or accuracy with such a survey as now produced. Such surveys may exist; but I have never seen any of them. Can you say that, not only with reference to anything you have seen in England, but anything you have seen abroad ?—The establishment at Southampton has been visited by many foreign officers; and I have been informed by them that there is nothing in foreign countries either in the mode of execution or in quality comparable with the system or with the works which are carried on at Southampton. Do the cadastre plans take in any towns upon a large scale?—No- thing of the kind. Do you know whether the scales in use in Germany for the regis- tration of property can compare with this ?—The Bavarians have a very large scale, but not so large as this. Therefore there being nothing like it in execution that you are aware of, you cannot compare the relative expense; but cannot you compare the expense of wages or remuneration to persons employed on the Ordnance survey with the rates of remuneration to persons conducting surveys either for corporations or for private individuals or public companies ? — I can compare the rates of the wages of labour given to persons employed on the Ordnance Survey with the rates which have tempted them to quit the Ordnance Survey for employment upon other works. I beg to hand in a Return in which all the names are purposely omitted, showing the rates of pay of 21 persons employed on the Ordnance Survey, the nature of the duties they performed, and the rates of remuneration; with the duties and rates of pay of these persons on railway surveys. Also the rates of pay at which many of them rejoined the Ordnance Survey. [77ie same ivas delivered in, and is as folloics.—Seep. 421.] What per centage does that vary from yours above or below ?— From 500 to 1000 per cent, above the rates in the Ordnance Survey. Have you any instances of persons employed on the Ordnance Sur- vey being taken by corporations into their employ ?—At the present moment the corporation of Liverpool, who are engaged in carrying out sanitary measures for the town of Liverpool, have abstracted a number of assistants from the Ordnance Survey that will answer the purpose of carrying on this very necessary work at rates of pay varying from 500 to 700 per cent, over that which they received on the Ordnance Surveys; and this, after having been furnished by the Ordnance Survey Department, almost at a nominal price, with a skele- ton plan of the town of Liverpool on this scale, with some altitudes inserted at the corners of streets. How do you account for the corporation of Liverpool desiring to have an additional and accurate survey, they having already those out- lines which are sufficient for all purposes of drainage?—I imagine it is to project their schemes. 'I'he Commissioners are anxious to ascertain what it would cost to survey the metropolis sufficiently for the purpose of drainage and sewerage; therefore it was that the question was asked, why tlie Liverpool people should be anxious to have a more complete survey](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21296935_0445.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
