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The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook

Chapter 118: Transcriber’s Notes
By H. Percy Boulnois
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About This Book

A practical manual provides guidance for municipal officers responsible for streets and public health, outlining appointment procedures, statutory duties, and committee practices, then surveying methods and traffic considerations. It details road construction and maintenance — macadam, Telford, bituminous and asphalt pavements, wood and stone setts — with specifications, machinery for breaking and rolling, and cost tables. Chapters treat footpaths, kerbing and drainage, street opening regulations, lighting options (gas versus electric), and street naming and numbering, while emphasizing sanitary measures, inspection, and contract and specification forms for town engineering practice.

Transcriber’s Notes

Depending on the hard- and software used and their settings, not all elements may display as intended; some of the larger tables are best viewed on a wide screen in a wide window.

Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, lay-out and use of accents and thousands separators have been retained except as listed below.

The (inconsistent) use of spaces, underscores, hyphens etc. to indicate blanks where names, data etc. need to be inserted has not been standardised.

page 4, Dr. Ackland: possibly Henry Acland.

page 137, 855 décicarcel-cubes: probably the decimal point is missing.

page 372, Ranson’s: should possibly be Ransom’s (cf. Table of Contents) or vice versa.

Index: not all items are given in alphabetical order, this has not been corrected.

Changes made:

Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter.

Some obvious minor punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected silently.

Vide has been standardised to Vide.

  • page xv: Leichenhauser changed to Leichenhaus
  • page 1: c. 63 s. 37 changed to c. 63 s. 37
  • page 14: closing quotes removed from after ... instructions thereon.
  • page 16: opening quotes removed from before Syllabus of Subjects ...
  • page 38: closing quote removed from after ... finished pavement.
  • page 52: Ellisons changed to Ellison’s
  • page 85, footnote [73]: Henry Allnut changed to Henry Allnutt
  • page 93: 5 0 changed to 5·0
  • page 137: décicarcel-tubes changed to décicarcel-cubes
  • page 164: closing quote removed from after ... is broken up.
  • page 184: nor exceeding changed to not exceeding
  • page 233: depot changed to depôt as elsewhere
  • page 247, footnote [172]: Beaumé changed to Baumé
  • page 322: Oilantus changed to Ailantus
  • page 334: (2.) added before The slaughter-houses.
  • page 357: footnote anchor [227] inserted
  • page 368: LEICHENHAUSER changed to LEICHENHAUS
  • page 371: closing quote added after ... ss. 120 and 121.
  • page 379: closing quotes added after ... nor any name. and after ... one of their inspectors.
  • catalogue page 11: Lord Lindsay changed to Lord Lindsay as other authors
  • catalogue page 15 and 16: several list items moved to new lines as the other list items.