The municipal and sanitary engineers' handbook / by H. Percy Boulnois.

  • Boulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy)
Date:
1898
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Credit: The municipal and sanitary engineers' handbook / by H. Percy Boulnois. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Codrington, rate of breaking stone, 69 Collection of refuse, 287 Combined drain, 381 Committee meetings, 26 Composition of asphalte, 117 Compressed asphalte roadways, 117 Compression of stone, 62 Concrete curb, 145 — footpaths, T34 — street foundation, loi Contour of roadways, 54 Contract with a gas company, 169 Contracts, 464 Conveniences, public, 351 Cost of asphalte pavements, 122 — of maintenance of roads, 52 — of refuse destructor, 300 — of scavenging, 313 — of stone-breaking, 72 — of tar paving, 140 — of wood paving, 114 Cremator, 442 Creosoting wood, 105 Crimp, Santo, on watering, 310 Crompton, on tractive force, 36 Curbing and channelling, 143 Damage to streets, 188 Danger to pedestrians, 42 Dangerous buildings, 232 Deacon, George, on traffic, 31 Deadhouse, 451 Defects in dwelling-houses, 370 Deposit of plans, 270 Dimensions of curb, 144 Disinfection, 454 Disposal of refuse, 291 — of sewage, 330 — of snow, 304 Distance apart of lamps, 153, 178 Disturbance of streets, 188 Doors opening outwards, 219 Drain, definition of, 380 Drainage of houses, 380 Dustbins, 280 Duties of surveyor, 6, 13, 21 Dwellings for labourers, 357 Economy in gas lighting, 156 — in paving, 30 Effect of traffic, 31 Electric lighting, 152 EUice-Clark, on roads, 50 size of road metal, 67 Enamelled iron plates for street- naming, 182 Encaustic tiles for street-naming, 182 Engines, traction, on roads, 37 Escape from fire, 277 Euston pavement, 97 Examination of surveyor, 18 Expansion of wood, 110 Extraordinary traffic on roads, 38 Factories, insufficient sanitary ar- rangements in, 374 Fibre of wood, 106 Filtration, mechanical, 334 — sewage, intermittent, 333 Fire-clay curb, 146 Flagging, blue lias, 134 — Caithness, 133 — concrete, 137 — Yorkshire, 131 Flints, 65 Footpaths, 127 — concrete, 134 Ford and Wright, sewer ventilator, 346 Foundation of roadway, 50, 98 \ owler's steam road-roller, 89 Frankfort mortuary, 449 Frontage of streets, 215 Fryer's destructor, 294 Garden refuse, 285 Gas companies breaking up streets, 188