The relation of modern engineering to public health and local government : read at Oxford, before a meeting of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors, Feb. 18, 1876 / by Dr. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1876
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    of Modern Engineering to Public Health and to Local Government. In the case of all towns, such as those comprised in the Thames valley, there is, over and above the ordinary work of town management—such as laying out streets, erecting houses on healthy models, and constructing sewers—both the draining of the sur- rounding districts, and securing an uncontaminated and ample water supply. A memorial was drawn up in 1862% urging the Government to attend to the Regulation of the waters of the Thames—not to piirification only, but to the storeage at one time, and the liberation at the other, as afterwards recommended by the Commission of 1869. This cannot be effected with- out a united superintendence for the area of the whole valley. The plans of one Superintending Engineer must be followed through the whole basin, in the tributaries, as in the main channels. These plans could not be carried out without com- petent, well-trained local Sub-Engineers, acting nnder the Local Sanitary Authorities, and in har- mony with each other. The superintendence of wisely-devised sanitary areas for engineering purposes should be like the organization of one of our best railways, viz., into districts, or sub-districts, with connected super- vision of the whole. There are, therefore, many points to which the attention of an Association of Sanitary Engineers may be usefully drawn : a few may be named. » See Note II., p. 22 ; and compare Resolutions 33 to 26 of second Report of Royal Sanitary Commission, p. 176-