The Surveyor and municipal engineer . (February, 1898). more, so as to bo select. The foreman posed on a still higherplatform. Now a warm bath, soap and one towel costs with two towels IJd. Ditto, ditto, and higli-class toiletsoap, 2d. There are, of course, ladies days, but into the par-ticulars of their prejudices I have not ventured to inquire. To keep out infectious diseases there is also a doss-house ou the opposite side of the river to the village, in wliich mentramping in search of work are taken in. They are made totake a warm bath and their clothes are disinfected ;
The Surveyor and municipal engineer . (February, 1898). more, so as to bo select. The foreman posed on a still higherplatform. Now a warm bath, soap and one towel costs with two towels IJd. Ditto, ditto, and higli-class toiletsoap, 2d. There are, of course, ladies days, but into the par-ticulars of their prejudices I have not ventured to inquire. To keep out infectious diseases there is also a doss-house ou the opposite side of the river to the village, in wliich mentramping in search of work are taken in. They are made totake a warm bath and their clothes are disinfected ; and for Decbmbeb 16, 1898.] AND COUNTY ENGINEER. 761. Elan Village (April, 1895). a week they sleep hero, and are under the Bupcrvision of tliodoctor before being allowed to take np their quarters in thevillage. Thcsa arrangements have hitherto proved succossfal,and whilst two years ago small-pox was epidemic in manyparts of South Wales, and especially on some large publicworks, we escaped. With the permission of Mr. Loes, the highly es-teemed and moaf competent secretary of the WaterCommittse, I will now quote from a lecture ho hasdelivered with great success on several occasionsin the city :— The village is on the opposite side of the riverto the road, and access is given to it by a suspen-sion bridge constrnctod across tho river by the cor-poration. The position of the village in that it hasto be approached b}- this bridge, and that it iserected on private ground to which there is nopublic right of way is unfortunate, in that the coi--poration thereby have the means of exercising abeneficent supervision which would be impossiblewere
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