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Rudimentary treatise on the drainage of towns and buildings : suggestive of sanatory regulations that would conduce to the health of an increasing population
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Year: 1849 Publisher: London J. Weale

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Copy of petition to be signed by inhabitants of the city : to the Worshipful the Court of Commissioner of Sewers of the city of London.
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Year: 1849 Publisher: [London? s.n.

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City of London sewers : report of James Walker ... William Cubitt ... and Isambard K. Brunel ... civil engineers, addressed to the city remembrancer, dated 28th August 1848.
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Year: 1848 Publisher: [England s.n.

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The Thames Tideway Tunnel : Preventing Another Great Stink.
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ISBN: 0750991089 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stroud : The History Press,

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Preventing another Great Stink - the legacy of Sir Joseph Bazelgette and the Thames Tideway Tunnel.


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Letters to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, MP : on the subject of the drainage of the metropolis, state of the Thames, and the waste of fertilizing substances.
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Year: 1847 Publisher: [London, England? s.n.

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Outline of a comprehensive plan for diverting the sewage of London and Westminster from the Thames : and applying it to agricultural purposes, for improving the navigation of the river, and for establishing a supply of pure water to the metropolis
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Year: 1850 Publisher: London E. Wilson

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Suggestions for improving the sanatory state of London & its environs : slightly modified from the scheme submitted to the metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers in 1849
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Year: 1850 Publisher: London J. Weale

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Report of the sub-committee on the answers returned to questions addressed to the principal towns of England and Wales and on the objections from corporate bodies to the Public health bill
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Year: 1848 Publisher: London Printed for the Health of Towns' Association by W. Clowes

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Reports relating to the sewage : with reference to the observations of the Poor Law Commissioners on their inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain.
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Year: 1843 Publisher: [England s.n.]


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The Great Stink of London : Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
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ISBN: 0752493787 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : The History Press,

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In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. The Times called the crisis ""The Great Stink"". Parliament had to act - drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted by Parliament with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and this bo

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