Report of the Sewerage Commission of the City of Baltimore, Consisting of Mendes Cohen, F. H. Hambleton, E. L. Bartlett

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Press of the Friedenwald Company, 1897 - 231 páginas

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Página 229 - That the placing, discharging, or depositing, by any process or in any manner, of refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, mud, sand, dredgings, sludge, acid, or any other matter of any kind other than that flowing from streets, sewers, and passing therefrom in a liquid state...
Página 229 - Sound, within the limits which shall be prescribed by the supervisor of the harbor, is hereby strictly forbidden, and every such act is made a misdemeanor, and every person engaged in or who shall aid, abet, authorize, or instigate a violation of this section, shall, upon conviction, be punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, such fine to be not less than...
Página 193 - Such foulness is less offensive in the drains [storm-sewers] than in the catch-basins, which are situated at the sidewalks and where it is much more likely to be observed. Also it is found impracticable to intercept all matter in the catch-basins which would deposit in the drains after they reach the flat grades in the lower part of your city. The cleaning of the drains would, therefore, be necessary in any event, and the additional amount of siit that would be intercepted by the catch-basins will...
Página 201 - Within the eastern plateau region the pegmatite appears to have been produced in two ways, at least we seem compelled by direct evidence to assume that certain occurrences of it are true eruptive...
Página 229 - ... such act is made a misdemeanor, and every person engaged in or who shall aid, abet, authorize or instigate a violation of this section, shall, upon conviction, be punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, such fine to be not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than...
Página 26 - ... or if it should now be deemed best to utilize it, in spite of a pecuniary loss, it is thought that the point to which we propose carrying it will be as suitable as any which can be found near enough to the city, and at the same time far enough away from it.
Página 200 - ... are confined to the eastern portion of the plateau province and disappear beneath the overlying deposits of unconsolidated materials which compose the Coastal Plain. The Piedmont rocks of the second class are semi-crystalline, and while they have been subjected to a certain amount of metamorphism and alteration they still plainly show that they were once sediments of an ordinary type. While as yet only a few imperfect fossils have been found in them, they are not more altered than similar rocks...
Página 55 - Marennes oysters has nothing to do with copper. (10) The fact that perfectly fresh oysters contain fewer bacteria than those that have been stored or kept in shops. (11) The enormous number of the common colon bacillus present in very many oysters obtained from shops. (12) The possibility of getting rid of bacterial infection by placing the oyster in a stream of running water. There is a great diminution or total disappearance of the B. typhosus under these circumstances in from one to seven days.
Página 8 - Thousand Dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to...
Página 6 - That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.

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