W. Clark Esq.
W. Clark Esq C.E.
9 Victoria Chambers
Westminster
London S.W.
23/7/75
W. Clark Esq. C.E.
in great haste
& with the warmest wishes for your success-
and may God speed the Madras Drainage!
ever your faithful servt.
Florence Nightingale
I do not know the etiquette in such cases:
perhaps you could learn whether it is
My dear Sir,
With regard to Sir Bartle Frere’s suggestion
that I should write to the Duke of Buckingham
about your Madras Drainage scheme, it
was thought better that I should wait
until the plans came home officially:
they were expected every week. But
still they did not arrive. And under
the circumstances I wrote yesterday to the
Have you seen Sir Bartle Frere yet?
And will your Report come before
the Army Sanitary Comm:?
Pray believe me
ever your faithful servt.
Florence Nightingale
W. Clark, Esq.
Is not the “Cooum” foul because the
surface washings (rainfall) get into it?
Might I ask how you mean to provide
for this? By some form of catch-
watering the sides was talked of?
In your kind note to me you allude
to this, & trust to keeping out the sewage:
which your scheme, there cannot be a
doubt, will succeed in doing. You have
in view also to keep out the foul
surface water?
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
My dear Sir,
I thank you very much for the copy
of your invaluable Report on the Madras
Drainage & for your kind note.
I was very glad to hear that you are
come back: & I shall be still more
glad to hear that you are going out again,
to do it.
When your principles are carried out &