Item Information
Title
Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 5
Subject
Sanitary Engineering, Clark, William (1821-1880), India
Creator
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
Date
5 October 1872
Rights
https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Language
English
Type
Text - scan of original letter
Identifier
https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/nightingale/
Text
May I repeat what I said
this morning about the
desirableness of your
giving to the world this your new
Chapter on Sanitary
Engineering?
A principle which would
certainly not apply in many
cases can scarcely be
laid down as an infallible
law, like a Law of Nature.
Here was how the Metropolitan
San:y. Comm: & Mr. Chadwick
arrived at their views about
sewers: London was sewered
by great sewers: they had
these sewers guaged after
heavy rains & then they
this morning about the
desirableness of your
giving to the world this your new
Chapter on Sanitary
Engineering?
A principle which would
certainly not apply in many
cases can scarcely be
laid down as an infallible
law, like a Law of Nature.
Here was how the Metropolitan
San:y. Comm: & Mr. Chadwick
arrived at their views about
sewers: London was sewered
by great sewers: they had
these sewers guaged after
heavy rains & then they