Regulations for cleansing cesspools : together with suggestions for facilitating public or private efforts for sanitary purposes. August, 1848.

  • London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.
Date:
[1848]
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Credit: Regulations for cleansing cesspools : together with suggestions for facilitating public or private efforts for sanitary purposes. August, 1848. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jHetropoittan rtoers. REGULATIONS FOR CLEANSING CESSPOOLS. August, 1848. Her Majesty’s Justices and Commissioners of Sewers having taken into consideration the serious evils and hindrances to the public health which arise from Cesspools remaining full of putrescent matter under the public ways, and within private premises; and also from the improper and expensive methods usually adopted for emptying such Cesspools; hereby give Notice that they have caused a series of Regu¬ lations to be drawn up for the instruction of their own Officers, and also Suggestions for facilitating public or private efforts for Sanitary Purposes, as follows, viz.:— As to cleansing Cesspools in Public Streets or Courts. That the Surveyors take immediate steps for the cleansing of Cesspools situated under the public way either in Streets, Courts, or Alleys, and wherever it may be done by conveying the night-soil into the Sewers by means of a pump with suction and discharge-pipes. That they be empowered to obtain Water from' the Water Companies, and to procure engines, pumps, hose, and apparatus, for the purpose. That they put themselves in communication with parochial or other local authorities having charge of the cleansing of Cesspools, and any voluntary associations having that object, and co-operate with them. That, if the present number of foremen and labourers be insufficient, the necessary additional number be engaged by the Surveyors. As to the method to be generally used for cleansing such Cesspools. 1st. Force-pumps made with long and flexible suction-pipes and discharge- pipes for the purpose, and which may be taken down narrow Courts and Alleys, and worked by hand, should be used. (24)