The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's HandbookE. & F. N. Spon, 1883 - 394 pages |
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Page ix
... Improvements effected - Size of setts - Description of best class of stones — Mr . Walker and wear of stones - The Euston pavement - The Guidet paving - Manchester pavement - Concrete foundations - Grouting- Bituminous mixture - Stone ...
... Improvements effected - Size of setts - Description of best class of stones — Mr . Walker and wear of stones - The Euston pavement - The Guidet paving - Manchester pavement - Concrete foundations - Grouting- Bituminous mixture - Stone ...
Page xi
... Improving line of frontages - Assessing value of compensation - Removing projections of buildings - What are legal ... IMPROVEMENT OF PRIVATE STREETS . The 150th section of the Public Health Act - Criticisms of this section -Duties of ...
... Improving line of frontages - Assessing value of compensation - Removing projections of buildings - What are legal ... IMPROVEMENT OF PRIVATE STREETS . The 150th section of the Public Health Act - Criticisms of this section -Duties of ...
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... Improved sanitary carts - Disposal of refuse - Methods adopted in various towns- Destruction by fire - Cleansing of streets - Machinery v . hand labour -Durability of brooms - Scavenging at Liverpool - Quantity of material removed from ...
... Improved sanitary carts - Disposal of refuse - Methods adopted in various towns- Destruction by fire - Cleansing of streets - Machinery v . hand labour -Durability of brooms - Scavenging at Liverpool - Quantity of material removed from ...
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... improvement of dwellings of working classes - Mode of procedure under it — Amended by Act of 1879 - Further amended , 1882 - Duties of surveyor under these acts - Health of model dwellings - Description of industrial dwellings ...
... improvement of dwellings of working classes - Mode of procedure under it — Amended by Act of 1879 - Further amended , 1882 - Duties of surveyor under these acts - Health of model dwellings - Description of industrial dwellings ...
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... Improvement Clauses Act 1847 ( 10 & 11 Vic . c . 34 , s . 7 ) , * although for some considerable period prior to this date similar appointments had been made in several of the more important English towns , notably in the case of ...
... Improvement Clauses Act 1847 ( 10 & 11 Vic . c . 34 , s . 7 ) , * although for some considerable period prior to this date similar appointments had been made in several of the more important English towns , notably in the case of ...
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asphalte Aveling and Porter bitumen blocks blue lias broken stone building byelaws candles Carcel cause cellar cement cemetery chapter Civil Engineers cleansing cloth compressed concrete constructed contractor cost cubic depth district Ditto drain drainage duties electric erected excavation expense feet footpaths foundation give granite granite setts gravel ground grouting Health Act 1875 horses house refuse inches Institution of Civil iron joints kerb laid lamps light macadam macadamised roadways machine manner mortuary Municipal and Sanitary necessary notice nuisance occupier ordinary owner person pipes placed Portland cement premises Public Health Act purpose removed repair road metal road roller rolled sand Sanitary Engineers sewage sewer slaughter-house specification Square Yard steam roller street sufficient surface thereof thickness Thomas Codrington tion town surveyor traffic trees urban authority urban sanitary authority Val de Travers ventilation Vide watercloset wear width wood pavement wood paving
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Page 313 - Notices, orders and other such documents under this Act may be in writing or print, or partly in writing and partly in print ; and if the same...
Page 221 - Every local authority may, and when required by order of the local government board shall, themselves undertake or contract for — The removal of house refuse from premises ; The cleansing of earthclosets, privies, ashpits, and cesspools; either for the whole or any part of their district...
Page 252 - ... premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : " Sewer " includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word