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Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 6

Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 6

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Title

Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 6

Subject

Sanitary Engineering, Clark, William (1821-1880), India

Creator

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

Date

5 October 1872

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Language

English

Type

Text - scan of original letter

Identifier

https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/nightingale/

Text

calculated what size of drain
pipe would carry away
the sewage & they found
that quite small tubes
would do; and then they
laid down the same principle
as of universal application.
The Calcutta problem was quite
different from the London
one. You had to free
continuously a town sub soil
not only charged by rainfall
but by river water. [I suppose
that, tho’ the sizes of your
sewers are somewhat
over calculated for the
existing flow, if the entire
city were drained into your
outlets, they would not be too
large.]