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have to be looked to, and soon, or
the East, from becoming the carrier
of poison of not less than 2,000,000
people a startling fact itself, when
the low level sewer shall be com.
pleted— will be taxed also in their
patience, taxed in their health,
taxed now and anon by pestilence,
and heavily by death. This main
outfall may be said to form the
outer parallel of attack in the East
of London, flanked by the defective
drainage system of the flats of West
Ham; the next parallel is the polluted
River Lea, well pioneered in
its deadliest range by the Lea Cut;
the third and last parallel is the
Regent's Canal and its tributaries,
constituting a force without some
adequate counter-poising power,
altogether certain in action, and irresistable
in their attacks, under the
conditions of 1866.
From experiments with the
A nanometer, I am convinced that
the evolution of foul gases is not to be
measured by thousands, but by hundreds
of thousands of cubic feet,
from a single ventilator of 12 openings,
near the junction at Old Ford,
every 24 hours, The rate of exit
being modified by the temperature,
the force of the wind, and the
varying composition of the sewage,
it would be preposterous in me to