Item Information
Title
Letter to William Clark: 25 June 1875, page 2
Subject
Sanitary Engineering, Clark, William (1821-1880), India
Creator
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
Date
25 June 1875
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
the houses drained, we shall hear little
of high Madras death rates.
of high Madras death rates.
The principles are so sound that the question
reduces itself to one simply of engineering
detail.
The only point on which one would wish
for more information is on the “Cooum”
question. It will doubtless be an
enormous improvement to get the Madras
Sewage out of it: but is it not a
nuisance, altho’ the greater part of the
sewage does not go into it, but into