1846 Report of the First Meeting of the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company, Incorporated 1846. Together with an Analysis of Evidence &c

Description

First Edition, Very Scarce

A very scarce first edition.

The report begins with the necessity of 'a project which proposed at all times to carry away the drainage at the level of low tides, and to remove from the Thames the daily increasing refuse of London'.

The report goes on to discuss use of manure and sewage processes in Ceylon, Africa and America.

An informative discussion of the sanitary and sewage problems facing London in the mid nineteenth century.