Observations on Mr Phillips's letter to the Court of the 21st of June, 1849, as to a tunnel sewer : 29th June, 1849.

  • London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.
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[1849]
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Credit: Observations on Mr Phillips's letter to the Court of the 21st of June, 1849, as to a tunnel sewer : 29th June, 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^<3: No. 48.] fftetropolttan Commission of §s>e\uers. OBSERVATIONS ON Mr PHILLIPS’S LETTER TO THE COURT OF THE 21st OF JUNE, 1849. The remarks which Mr Phillips, in his letter of the 21st instant, which was read to the Court on that day, has voluntarily intruded with regard to the resolution of the Survey Committee of the 13th instant, and my Report of the drainage of Westminster of February, 1848, are accompanied with those grave misrepresen¬ tations on engineering points, that I conceive should not go forth without notice: and there are other facts in the case of that unusual kind, that in venturing to offer a few observations to the Committee on this part of the subject, I believe it will be of importance to the public service, that they should be made aware also of the whole course of Mr Phillips’s proceedings in this matter, and of the nature of the plan which he has now propounded for the drainage of the metropolis. Mr Phillips states that the principles upon which, in pursuance of the order of the Court of January, 1848, my plan for the drainage of Westminster was pre¬ pared, are wholly impracticable, and unworthy the objects which should be kept in view for the perfect drainage of this great metropolis; and in their stead he presents to the Court a plan, founded to some extent upon the same necessities, but totally misunderstood. His plan is simply that of a tunnel, 20 miles in length, extending from King¬ ston to the Kent or Essex Marshes, in the general direction of the river, 100 feet (43) A