The main drainage of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, on the Shone hydro-pneumatic system, with drawings and hydraulic sewerage table (for office reference for architects and engineers) explanatory of scientific and sanitary drainage / by Isaac Shone.

  • Shone, Isaac.
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Credit: The main drainage of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, on the Shone hydro-pneumatic system, with drawings and hydraulic sewerage table (for office reference for architects and engineers) explanatory of scientific and sanitary drainage / by Isaac Shone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vll “ We must congratulate the Members of both Houses upon the very important sanitary reform which has been effected by means of these works. There can be no doubt that the condition of the House will be immensely improved, and we think that much credit is due both to Sir Henry Boscoe’s Committee and to Mr Shone, who has so efficiently carried out the recommendations o that Committee. The machinery for keeping the Palace sewers empty will, of course, be constantly supervised by skilled persons, who, it is evident, must always be present night and day, both m and out of Session, in order that the proper supply of compressed air may be maintained, and the possible accident of sudden flood be grappled with. However, there is little likelihood of sewage accumulating in the Palace of Westminster in the future. Oui Legislators have shown themselves alive to the importance of ‘passing it on.’ Let us hope they will next turn their attention to the recipients of it, and take unhappy Barking and pool lathei Thames into their kindly consideration.” Iron {'January 28th, 1887) said :— “We have dealt thus lengthily with the subject of the new sewerage works at the Houses of Parliament because that subject fully merits it, and it does so on two main grounds. In the first place, the proper sanitation of the House of the National Assembly is of national importance. Of no less national importance, in the second place, is the system adopted for ensuring the sanitary con- dition of that House: for what can be effected by it in one place can be, and is being, effected by it in others, and that, too, at a minimum of cost as compared with that of the ordinary cumbrous sewerage system.’ The Times (January 26th, 1887) describes the system in operation at the Houses of Parliament as “ Beautifully simple and effective.” To those who act as if the Sanitary Engineers (of the old school) had brought drainage works in particular to such a degree of perfection that there was really no room for further improvement, I would commend a