Report on a System of Sewerage for the City of San Francisco (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Many expedients have been resorted to for effecting this purpose. The first and most natural one was to send men and boys into the sewers, and remove the deposits from them in buckets through the man-holes in the middle of the streets.

This vile practice still obtains in this city, but it has seen its day and its end in all well drained cities of our Atlantic seaboard and in Europe; and when the true principles which should govern the proper construction of sewers are better understood and acted upon in this city, the disgusting operation will come to an end here also.

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