Punch,  18 (1850), 109.

Draining the Metropolis

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Pollution, Public Health, Engineering, Government


    Responding to an article in The Times on the City of London Commissioners of Sewers, points out that the commissioners have implemented a 'system of drainage' but 'drained the City's resources instead of its sewers'.



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