BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. : SANITARY WORK IN THE SMALLER TOWNS AND IN VILLAGES. Comprising :I. Some of the more Common Forms of Nuisance, and their Remedies.-II. Drainage.-III. Water Supply. By CHARLES SLAGG, A.-M.I.C.E. With Illustrations. 12mo. 38. 6d. cloth. "We have in the course of our duty read the work, and we find nothing but good in it. It contains all that such a treatise can be expected to contain, and appears to us sound and trustworthy in every particular .... the observance of the instructions it contains may save not only money but lives."-The Builder. "The information given is just that which is so often wanted by those who have the management of house property in villages and the smaller towns. The information given is excellent, while Mr. Slagg has the power of conveying it clearly and tersely. It is an exceedingly useful handbook, which we have pleasure in commending."-Engineering. LONDON: CROSBY LOCKWOOD & SON, 7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, E.C. WATER ENGINEERING A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE MEASUREMENT, STORAGE, CONVEYANCE, AND BY CHARLES SLAGG WATER AND DRAINAGE ENGINEER, ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, TD 345 LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. 51222 PREFACE. SINCE a series of articles on 'The Water Question,' by the Author, appeared in the 'Building News,' frequent requests have been made that they should be reprinted in book-form. Those requests have now been complied with, and the Author has, at the same time, added much new matter, and rewritten some parts of the old. So large a subject could not be treated from the Author's own experience alone, and he has freely referred to such sources of information as were available to him, for those parts of the subject which did not come immediately within his own experience. But, for the most part, the information is derived from direct observation during a period of about thirty years. The authorities referred to are, it is hoped, fairly quoted throughout; at least it has been the desire of the Author not to assert as of his own observation that which is due to the statements of eminent engineers. LEOMINSTER. |