Report on the drainage and conservancy of Calcutta, Band 112Bengal Secretariat Press, 1869 - 124 Seiten |
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Seite 55 - ... disturbed, would rise in such numbers as almost to darken the air. Into this great dismal swamp the floods descending from the interior were carried, their waters mingling and winding by many devious channels before they reached the sea. They were laden with silt, which became deposited in the basin of the Fens. Thus the riverbeds were from time to time choked up, and the intercepted waters forced new channels through the ooze, meandering across the level, and often winding back upon themselves,...
Seite 55 - Communion, nor supply of any necessity saving what these poor desolate places do afford. And what expectation of health can there be to the bodies of men, where there is no element good ? the air being for the most part cloudy, gross, and full of rotten harrs ; the water putrid and muddy, yea, full of loathsome vermin; the earth spungy and boggy, and the fire noisome by the stink of smoaky hassocks.
Seite 55 - A region of wild and swampy country, partly cultivated, and partly overflowed, by which overflowing in the winter time, when the ice is strong enough to hinder the passage of boats and yet not able to bear a man, the inhabitants upon the Hards and the banks within the fens can have no help of food, nor comfort for body or soul, nor supply of any necessity save what those poor desolate places do afford.
Seite 94 - Act, shall be under the Survey and Control of the Commissioners, and shall be altered, repaired, and kept in proper Order at the Costs and Charges of the Owners of the...
Seite 6 - With regard to the northern or native division of Calcutta which contains some hundred thousand people. it is no figure of speech but the simple truth to say that no language can adequately describe its abominations. In the filthiest quarters. of the filthiest towns that I have seen in other parts of India or in other countries, I have never seen anything which can' be for a moment compared with the filthiness of Calcutta...
Seite 6 - if a plain unvarnished description of the streets of the Northern Division of Calcutta, bordered by their horrible open drains, in which almost all the filth of the city stagnates and putrefies, were given to the people of England, they would consider the account altogether incredible.
Seite 72 - ... as the custom is in Spain, Portugal, and some parts of France and Italy. A practice to which I can by no means be reconciled; for notwithstanding- all the care that is taken by their scavengers to remove this nuisance every morning by break of day, enough still remains to offend the eyes, as well as the other organs, of those whom use has not hardened against all delicacy of sensation.
Seite 65 - I have examined the question with the greatest care ; and although I am compelled to state that the present system is very far from perfect, yet every proposition for improving the ventilation is met with hosts of difficulties, which really look insignificant until you investigate them, when they become so formidable, that you may call them invincible.
Seite 76 - ... comparing a bottle of it with a bottle of water from Loch Katrine, without knowing in which bottle the respective waters were contained, one of us actually selected the Croydon sewage water as being that which he believed was Loch Katrine water, t Similar results have attended its application at Rugby, Carlisle, Barking, and other places, and there can therefore be no doubt whatever that foul sewage after being properly and sufficiently passed over suitable land, and applied to suitable crops,...
Seite 55 - ... banks within the fens can have no help of food, nor comfort for body or soul ; no woman aid in her travail, no means to baptize a child or partake of the Communion, nor supply of any necessity saving what these poor desolate places do afford.