The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer’s Handbook

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Author

Boulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy), 1846-1927

Title

The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TD: Technology: Environmental technology, Sanitary engineering

Subject

Municipal engineering

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55935

Release Date

November 11, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY ENGINEER’S HANDBOOK.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. THE TOWN SURVEYOR.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. THE APPOINTMENT OF SURVEYOR. — Report of the Special Sub-Committee as to the Surveyor. — Duties of the Surveyor. — Examination of Local Surveyors and Inspectors of Nuisances. — Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for Local Surveyors. — Laws and Bye-Laws. — Sewerage and Drainage. — Water Supply of Towns and Houses. — Regulations of Cellar Dwellings and Lodging Houses. — Highways and Streets. — Examination Papers, November 6, 1879. — Questions for Surveyors, November 6, 1879, 2 to 4 o’clock. — November 6, 1879, 6 to 8 o’clock.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. THE SURVEYOR’S DUTIES. — List of Duties devolving upon a Town Surveyor as “Surveyor of Highways.”
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. TRAFFIC.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. MACADAMISED ROADWAYS. — Specification of a Roadway as designed by Thomas Telford more than fifty years ago. [13] — Specification of a Roadway as now executed. — Bituminous Roadways.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. ROAD METAL AND BREAKING. — Syenite. — Granite. — Trappean Rocks. — Gneiss. — Clay Slates. — Limestone. — Sandstones. — Flints. — Pebbles. — Gravel. — Specification for the Supply of Road Metal.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. ROAD ROLLING.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. PITCHED PAVEMENTS.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. WOOD PAVING. — The Improved Wood Pavement Company. — The Asphaltic Wood Pavement Company. — Croskey’s Wood Pavement. — Lloyd’s Patent Keyed Wood Pavement. — Harrison’s Wood Pavement. — Henson’s Wood Pavement. — Carey’s Wood Pavement. — Messrs. Mowlem and Company’s — Patent Ligno-Mineral Paving Company. — Nicholson’s Wood Pavement. — Stowe’s Wood Pavement. — Wood Paving in Norwich. — Shiel’s Composite Block Paving. — Prosser’s Wood Pavement. — Excavation. — Foundation. — Wood Blocks. — Joints. — Top Dressing.
13. 13.CHAPTER X. COMPRESSED ASPHALTE ROADWAYS. — Specimen Specification for a Compressed Asphalte Roadway. — Excavation and Concrete. — Asphalte. — Ramming.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. FOOTPATHS. — Yorkshire Flagging. — Specimen Specification for Yorkshire Flagging Foot Pavements. — Caithness Flagging — Blue Lias Flagging. — Concrete Footpaths. — Brick Footpaths. — Granite Slab Pavement. — Artificial Asphalte Pavements. — Tar Concrete for Footpaths. — Method of Mixing. — Method of Laying. — General Remarks. — Gravel Footpaths.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. KERBING AND CHANNELLING, ETC.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. LIGHTING STREETS. — Hints for a Contract with a Gas Company.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. STREET NAMING AND NUMBERING. — Minton’s China Tiles. — Cast-iron Plates with Embossed Letters. — Painted Names on Walls of Buildings. — Enamelled Iron Plates. — Wooden or Metal Figures cut out and fastened on to Boards or against Walls. — Enamelled Glass Tablets in Street Lamps.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV. BREAKING UP STREETS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. OBSTRUCTIONS IN STREETS. — (1.) Improving the Line of Frontages of Streets. — (2.) Removing Projections of Buildings. — (3.) Doors or Gates opening outwards. — — (4.) Vault or Cellar Coverings. — — (5.) Rain-water from Shutes or Down Pipes. — — (6.) Blinds or Awnings over Footpaths. — — (7.) Trees overhanging Roadways. — — (8.) Surface Water from Private Premises running over Footpaths. — — (9.) Hoardings and Scaffolds. — — (10.) Dangerous Buildings. —
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. IMPROVEMENT OF PRIVATE STREETS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. NEW STREETS AND BUILDINGS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. SCAVENGING.
23. 23.CHAPTER XX. SEWERAGE.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. VENTILATION OF SEWERS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. PUBLIC CONVENIENCES.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. ARTIZANS AND LABOURERS’ DWELLINGS, &c.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. DEFECTS IN DWELLING-HOUSES, &C. — Cellar Dwellings. — Insufficient W.C. accommodation.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. HOUSE DRAINAGE.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII. PUBLIC PLEASURE GROUNDS AND STREET TREES.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII. PUBLIC ABATTOIRS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX. MARKETS.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXX. CEMETERIES.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI. MORTUARIES.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXII. BORROWING UNDER THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIII. CONTRACTS.
37. 37.INDEX.
38. 38.BOOKS RELATING TO APPLIED SCIENCE PUBLISHED BY E. & F. N. SPON, LONDON: 16, CHARING CROSS. NEW YORK: 44, MURRAY STREET.
39. 39.Transcriber’s Notes

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