Sewage disposal : report of a committee appointed by the President of the Local Government Board to inquire into the several modes of treating town sewage / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

  • Great Britain. Local Government Board. Committee to Inquire into the Several Modes of Treating Town Sewage.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Sewage disposal : report of a committee appointed by the President of the Local Government Board to inquire into the several modes of treating town sewage / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INSTRUCTIONS FOR INQUIRY. (Copy.) Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W., Sik, June 19th, 1S75. I am desired by the President to enclose, for your information, a copy of a minute of the Board, dated 17th instant, directing an inquiry into the practical efficiency of the chief systems of sewage disposal now in operation, and for which loans have been sanctioned by this Department. The President considers it desirable that the proposed inquiry should be undertaken as soon as possible, and I am therefore to request that you will be good enough to make the necessary arrangements for entering upon it in conjunction with the other gentlemen nominated by him. The principal points to which it is important that your attention should be directed are fully stated in the Minute. I am. Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed) John Lambert, Robert Rawlinson, Esq., C.B., C.E. Secretary. &c. &c. &c. SEWAGE DISPOSAL. The attention of the Board has for some time past been directed to the great difficulties experienced by sanitary authorities in devising means for the disposal of the sewage of their districts- and, having regard to the frequent applications which are made to them for advice on this subject, they have deemed it expedient that special inqiury should be made under their direction into the practical efficiency of the chief systems of sewage disposal now in operation, and for which loans have been sanctioned by them,