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9780860787549

Water-Supply and Public Health Engineering

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  • ISBN13:

    9780860787549

  • ISBN10:

    0860787540

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-03-28
  • Publisher: Variorum

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Summary

This volume traces the evolution of the concept of Public Health and reveals the importance of political will and public spending in this field of civil engineering. Design, construction, operation and maintenance of water-supply and main drainage works are discussed. The period covered extends from Roman engineering through to the early 20th century, with examples from Europe, America and Japan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
General Editor's Preface xi
Introduction xiii
URBAN WATER-SUPPLY
Attitudes to Roman engineering and the question of the inverted siphon
1(28)
Norman A.F. Smith
Our debt to Roman engineering: the water supply of Lincoln to the present day
29(17)
M.J.T. Lewis
Sir Hugh Myddelton and the New River
46(33)
G.C. Berry
George Sorocold of Derby: a pioneer of water supply
79(36)
F. Williamson
The old water-supply of Seville
115(16)
George Higgin
Portsmouth's water supply, 1800-1860
131(24)
Mary Hallett
The impounding reservoirs of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company, 1845--1905
155(28)
R.W. Rennison
The old Croton Aqueduct
183(12)
George H. Rappole
Bringing water to the Crescent City: Benjamin Latrobe and the New Orleans waterworks system
195(16)
Gary A. Donaldson
Urban sanitation in preindustrial Japan
211(26)
Susan B. Hanley
SANITARY REFORM
The development of Victorian infrastructures: the example of Portsmouth
237(22)
Robert. A. Otter
Edwin Chadwick and the engineers, 1842-1854: systems and antisystems in the pipe-and-brick sewers war
259(30)
Christopher Hamlin
The separate vs. combined sewer problem: a case study in urban technology and design choice
289(32)
Joel A. Tarr
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819-1891): engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works
321(24)
Denis Smith
Eugene Belgrand (1810-1878): civil engineer, geologist and pioneer hydrologist
345(32)
George Atkinson
Index 377

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