The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette . Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Mr. Phillips gives his support to the statement that some neigh-bourhoods are at times afflicted with more noxious effluvia fromthe sewers, than if there were no sewers whatever. He thinks thegreat remedies are to keep a constant supply of water in thesewers, and to circulate it through them ; and to carry all theoutlets under the side beds of the river, to discharge into the mainstream under low-water level. J\Ir. Phillips has found that theatmosphere of districts near the outlets of the sewers is lia
The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette . Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Mr. Phillips gives his support to the statement that some neigh-bourhoods are at times afflicted with more noxious effluvia fromthe sewers, than if there were no sewers whatever. He thinks thegreat remedies are to keep a constant supply of water in thesewers, and to circulate it through them ; and to carry all theoutlets under the side beds of the river, to discharge into the mainstream under low-water level. J\Ir. Phillips has found that theatmosphere of districts near the outlets of the sewers is liable tobe affected with effluvia, when the wind happens to blow up tliesewers. By carrying the outlets into the stream, he expects, more-over, to get rid of the filthy mud-banks, and the myriads of wormssweltering upon them. The Report notices the extended use of the egg-shaped sewer inthe Holborn and Finsbury and Westminster divisions, but remarksthat the new sewers constructed are generallv of the same internalcapacity as the old forms, and therefore disproportioned to t
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