 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1865 - 484 pages
...valley lines, — as the Fleet Sewer, the Tye Bourne and the Bayswater Brook (now called the Ranulagh Sewer), and the King's Scholar's Pond Sewer, — taken...waters only. As the population of London increased, its subsoil became thickly studded with cesspitols, improved household appliances were introduced,... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1865 - 636 pages
...leading from Buckingham Gate towards Pimlico, at His Majesty's expense if His Majesty so pleases." Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge...channels for carrying off the surface waters only. Afterwards it became permissive, and in the year 1847 the first Act was obtained making it compulsory,... | |
 | Sir Joseph William Bazalgette - 1865 - 46 pages
...leading from Buckingham Gate towards Pimlico, at His Majesty's expense if His Majesty so pleases." Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge...channels for carrying off the surface waters only. Afterwards it became permissive, and in the year 1847 the first Act was obtained making it compulsory,... | |
 | Science - 1879 - 680 pages
...hundred years ago, is preserved in MS. in the records of the ancient Westminster Commission." Again : " Up to about the year 1815 it was penal to discharge...sewers as the legitimate channels for carrying off surface waters only ; afterwards it became permissive, and in the year 1847 the first Act was obtained... | |
 | Henry Aubrey Husband - Medical jurisprudence - 1883 - 642 pages
...Sewerage The health of any locality in a great measure depends vipon the efficiency of the drainage. ' Up to about the year 1815 it was penal to discharge...channels for carrying off the surface waters only. Afterwards it became permissive, and in the year 1847 the first Act was obtained making it compulsory... | |
 | Providence. Engineer Dept, Samuel Merrill Gray - Providence (R.I.) - 1884 - 252 pages
...water-closets, about the commencement of the present century, fecal matter was admitted into the public drains. "Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge...channels for carrying off the surface waters only. Afterwards it became permissive, and in the year 1847 the first act was obtained making it compulsory... | |
 | Samuel Merrill Gray - 1884 - 216 pages
...water-closets, about the commencement of the present century, faecal matter was admitted into the public drains. "Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge...drainage, and sewers as the legitimate channels for carry* Hecker, Black Death in the 14th Century. ing off the surface waters only. Afterwards it became... | |
 | Sewerage - 1884 - 846 pages
...about the commencement of the present century, fcecal matter -was admitted into the public drains. "Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge...drainage, and sewers as the legitimate channels for carry•Hecker, Black Death in the 14th Century. ing off the surface waters onlyx Afterwards it became... | |
 | Providence. Engineer Dept, Samuel Merrill Gray - Providence (R.I.) - 1884 - 240 pages
...water-closets, about the commencement of the present century, fiecal matter was admitted into the public drains. "Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge...offensive matters into the sewers; cesspools were regarded <is the proper receptacles for house drainage, and sewers as the legitimate channels for carrying off... | |
 | William Henry Corfield - 1887 - 590 pages
...this was the case when the privy system was in vogue, and of other towns the same remark may be made. Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge...channels for carrying off the surface waters only. Afterwards it became permissive, and in the year 1847 the first Act was obtained making it compulsory... | |
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Up to about the year 1815, it was penal to discharge sewage or other offensive matters into the sewers ; cesspools were regarded as the proper receptacles for house drainage, and sewers as the legitimate channels for carrying off the surface waters only.... 
