Proceedings and reports of the Sanitary Commission of the City of Atlanta, Ga - Brossura
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... bility of the stench with which the-contaminate the atmosphere, at a considerable distance all around. The author of this communication has been in mauy sewers, has walked over miles of subterranean canals, has become acquainted with the subterranean basins of crosness, the 1,040 t.a»re feet of surface contents of which are covered with a portion of the wwage water of London, of which 10,000 cutic feet are pumped to the tea in every minute; but has never before in his life, smelled anything which distantly reminded him of the stench at Bondy. It was, even after having been for hours in the open atmosphere with a heavy wind blowing, impossible to return to Paris in a railroad car occupied by ary one else, tte. This state of things, as far as odors are concerned, is even worse than what Dr. G. apprehends in his original report, at the outfall of our sewers in Atlanta, if we build such, with the only difference that the first is an existing reality, the second an imagination, unsupported by facts or experience. From the report of the Prefect of Police of Paris, from the 4th of August, 1854--also contained in the above mentioned work of G. Varrentrapp--I add only a few sentences: The direct removal system is a great inconvenience to the inhabitants o: Paris. The means which are used to disinfect the substances do not prevent a putrid smell in the streets. The liquid constituents, after having been saturated with more or less neutralizing substances, are, under the supposition that they are odorless, allowed to run into the gutters, and disseminate their stinking emanations far and near. Mixed with residues of all kinds, intended to flow into the subterranean canals, they produce a degree of fermentation within them which intensifies the dangerous nature of...
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- EditoreGeneral Books LLC
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1150086777
- ISBN 13 9781150086779
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine80
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