Suggestions for improvements in the sewerage of cities and towns / by Charles F. Moore.

  • Moore, Charles Frederick.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Suggestions for improvements in the sewerage of cities and towns / by Charles F. Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    in cess-pools, as seen in Paris, Constantinople, Cairo, Alexandria, many parts of the United Kingdom, &c. The constantly increasing contamination of all springs and subsoil water in or near such cess-pools or cesspool sewers, sewers or badly laid pipes, &c. The impregnation of all soils in great towns or other places, whether from sewers of imperfect con- struction, cess-pools, or contaminated infiltrations from broken or obstructed sewage pipes. I need scarcely state, that there cannot be a sys- tem so perfect as completely to avoid any leakage whatever; but by what I shall herein advise, I con- sider that an important amount of leakage shall be prevented, and the deficient part easily ascertained, and reached for repairs. I would also avoid the concentration of sewage as recommended by many plans, and the great increase of expense, and the evil of the formation of cess-pools for every house. The gross amount of sewage diluted with water will be much lessened by my plan; and as water is decomposed by the more solid parts of sewage, and hence arises a variety of most noxious gases, the re-, suit mil be much more favourable to health than the present systems. There will also be a large return for outlay, as a very “ powerful manure,” to use the words of the learned Sir H. Davy, will be obtained by the system which I advocate, and an economy to some extent in the water required for towns. The daily removal of the contents of the filtering