Plan of sanitary improvements of the City of Edinburgh, August 17, 1866 / by Messrs Cousin and Lessels.

Date:
1866
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Credit: Plan of sanitary improvements of the City of Edinburgh, August 17, 1866 / by Messrs Cousin and Lessels. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PUN OF SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS. YHTi August 1866. The plan of Improvements now submitted for the consider- ation of the Lord Provost’s Committee, is based on that originally projected by the Lord Provost, but includes some important modifications, the result of careful con- sideration. The new plan will also be found to embrace several additional improvements, greatly calculated, as we think, to benefit the sanitary condition of the city. Each of the sections proposed to be improved has been minutely surveyed, levels have been taken, and drawings of cross and longitudinal sections effected; and the new lines of thoroughfares now proposed have been carefully adjusted, in order to work in with the existing levels, where these could not be altered; others have been altered where admissible, so as to secure the best possible gradient for the new thoroughfares; for it must be obvious to all, that, in devising a readjustment of streets and lines of com- munication in districts where the levels vary so rapidly as those of the steep declivities on either side of the High Street, the direction and lie of the new streets must, in a great measure, be determined by these levels. While the revised plan has, in all its parts, been the subject of personal scrutiny on the spot, we acknowledge. having adopted, in some instances, hints from previous inquirers, particularly the Council of the Architectural Institute of Scotland, whose suggestion as to opening up the thorough- fare between Nicolson Square and Charles Street has been