Dublin main drainage scheme : souvenir handbook ; published by the authority of the Municipal Council to mark the inauguration of the Dublin main drainage, September, 1906.

Date:
1906
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Dublin main drainage scheme : souvenir handbook ; published by the authority of the Municipal Council to mark the inauguration of the Dublin main drainage, September, 1906. Source: Wellcome Collection.

18 results

24/124 (page 6)
of the proposed loan, and such being the case, the security of a further rate upon the property within these limits appears to be insufficient, the Treasury state that, under the circumstances, it was IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO AUTHORISE THE ADVANCE in the face of this information, and that it was for the Corporation to improve the security offered. The Chief Secretary pointed out that no time was to be lost if it should be found that increased Parliamentary powers were necessary to enable the Corporation to satisfy the require- ments of the Public Works Loan Board. But what happened towards the end of the month ? Notice was served on the Corporation of an application for an injunction to restrain the Corporation from proceeding with the proposed Main Drainage Amendments Bill, consequently it was decided not to proceed with the work, the Government having declined to grant the required loan. No steps were taken from 1875 until the Public Health (Ireland) Act was passed. The passing of that Act placed the Corporation in the position to raise money by the issue of stock without applying to the Treasury. Some time subsequent the Corporation opened negotiations with the War Office for the purchase of the Pigeon House Fort, but what with disputes about the site of the precipitation tank, the outfall, etc., it was not until the Local Govern- ment Board held an inquiry in 1892 that a decision was arrived at and a provisional order obtained for the carrying out of the works. The Committee (the Main Drainage Committee) was appointed by the Municipal Council to carry out the works, which have been brought to completion so far as the City of Dublin was concerned. I might mention that the money raised for carrying out the whole of the works was borrowed on the security of stock issued by the Corporation of Dublin, and that no money whatever was borrowed from the Treasury. THE CREDIT OF RAISING THIS STOCK at a reasonable rate of interest is due to our City Treasurer, Mr. Eyre. Previous to the Public Health Act, 1878, the river was comparatively a very pure one, and it was only after the passing of this Act that w.c.’s were regularly introduced into the city, and privies and cesspools done away with under the distinguished administration of the officer of Public Health, Sir Charles Cameron. Although this advanced improvement was, and is, for the benefit of the public health, yet it was the chief cause of the fouling of the foreshores of the river. Indeed, previous to the introduction of the Vartry the streets of the city were watered bjT pumping water from the river, as pumps were fixed at each end of the bridges, and from thence the water was taken. It is only of compara- tively recent date—about 35 years ago—that these pumps were removed. The Dublin Corporation Main Drainage Works were designed in 1891 to take the sewage of the then outlying districts of Clontarf township, Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and Glasnevin township, the urban district of Grangegorman, and New Kilmainham township, together with the City of Dublin as it then existed, and convey it to the Pigeon House to be treated there. Since then these districts, together with the comparative small additions of Chapelizod village and a small portion of the rural district of Crumlin and Don^^carney, were annexed by the Corporation, and the