The main drainage of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, on the Shone Hydro-Pneumatic System : with drawings and hydraulic sewage table (for office reference for architects and engineers) explanatory of scientific and sanitary drainage / by Isaac Shone.

  • Shone, Isaac.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The main drainage of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, on the Shone Hydro-Pneumatic System : with drawings and hydraulic sewage table (for office reference for architects and engineers) explanatory of scientific and sanitary drainage / by Isaac Shone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tvithout prejudice; and I feci confident that the Select Comniittec of the House of Commons appointed to investigate the drainage and ventilation arrangements of the Houses of Parliament did likewise—otherwise, judging solely from past experience with other works, the extraordinary opposition which my system has encountered at the hands of a certain few engineers— not a thousand miles from Westminster, would, I am afraid, have influenced them in favour of adopting some plan on old rather than on new lines. The works on the new lines, however, were approved of by the Government, and when the present Session of Parlia- ment assembled in January last, they were practically complete. On that occasion the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, the Right Hon. David Plunket, Q.C., M.P., invited the representatives of the Press to inspect the works; in due course a great number of notices appeared in the various journals and newspajDers, descrijotive of the New Works. I will give here extracts from two of them only, as samples of the expression of oj)inion on the part of the Press:— The Lancet (January 29th, 1887) said:— The much-needed reconstruction of the main sewers of the Houses of Parliament has been carried out during the recess by- Mr. Isaac Shone, the engineer in charge of the works, and on Tuesday last a select party, inckiding representatives of some of the daily and weeldy journals, were personally conducted by the Gnineer to view the alterations which have been made. Mr. Shone has issued an explanatory pamphlet, which, to a certain extent, is historical, and serves to show what an absolutely modern science is sanitation as carried out at present, and how crude were the attempts in this direction fifty years ago, even in the hands of men of genius with command of unHmited funds.