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Street cleaning - Early works to 1800
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An answer to A short essay on the scheme lately set on foot for lighting and keeping clean the streets of the city of Exeter. Demonstrating the pernicious and fatal effects with which it would have been attended.
Date: 1755- Books
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An act for paving, Cleansing, Lighting, and otherwise Improving, the Streets, Lanes, and other public Passages and Places, within the Borough of Derby; and for selling a certain Piece of Waste Ground, situate within the said Borough, called Nun's Green, towards defraying the Expence of the said Improvements.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1792]- Books
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Sir, The inconveniences arising from the manner in which the streets of this city have been kept for many years, notwithstanding of every endeavour hitherto taken to remove them, have, at last, disposed the magistrates and council to appoint a committee of citizens, with full powers "to digest, and carry into effect, a plan for the purpose of more effectually "keeping the streets clean." The committee, after very fully deliberating on this businesss, have resolved, as the most likely method of accomplishing the purpose of their appointment, to engage a certain number of seavengers, ...
Date: 1786]