Reports and correspondence respecting the drainage of the new palace at Westminster : January, 1849.

  • London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.
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[1849]
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Credit: Reports and correspondence respecting the drainage of the new palace at Westminster : January, 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (PRINTED FOR USE OF COMMISSIONERS.) ^Metropolitan Commission of ^etoevs, January, 1849. REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE DRAINAGE OF THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER. To the Right Honourable and Honour¬ able the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers. Mr Austin's Report. Gentlemen, 29th August, 1848. Information having been received which rendered it desirable that an examination should be made of the sewers at the New Palace at Westminster, I beg to inform you that, according to your instructions that I should undertake this duty and report to you thereon, I sought in the first place an interview with the architect, Mr Barry, who explained to me the general features of the drainage, and subsequently at my request furnished a tracing of the plan, exhibiting the direction, levels, and cross sections of the main lines of drain¬ age. I then proceeded with the examina¬ tion of these works, accompanied by M Lovick, the Assistant-Surveyor, and a Clerk of the Works, and obtained all the information that appeared desirable. The accompanying block plan will as¬ sist the description of the works that I have to offer. To Her Majesty’s Commissioners appointed to superintend the completion of the New Palace at Westminster. Mr Barry's Reply. Great George Street, 8th November, 1848. My Lord and Gentlemen, In compliance with a request made in a letter from your Secretary, Mr Cole, of the 28th September last, 1 have now the honour to forward to you my remarks on the Report of Mr Austin to the Metro¬ politan Commission of Sewers, relative to the Drainage of the New Palace at West¬ minster, which remarks I have thought it best to append to the enclosed printed copy of that Report. I regret that, owing to a long absence from home, I have been prevented from taking an earlier notice ot this extraordinary document. I think it right to inform you, that Mr Austin’s examination of the Drainage of the New Palace, at least for the purpose shown in his Report, was made without my knowledge, and consequently without any information from any of the Cleiks of my establishment; and the Report has not only been drawn, but printed and A