Paper, 'The air of sewers' by Thomas Carnelley and John Scott Haldane
Reference number: PP/10/60
Date: 1887
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The authors write: 'Owing to the complaints which had been made of bad smells in the House of Commons, a Select Committee was appointed in the spring of 1886 to inquire into the ventilation of the House. In consequence of the experience we had gained in the course of an extensive examination of the air of houses and schools in Dundee (see ‘Phil. Trans.,’ vol. 178 (1887), B, p. 61), we were instructed by the Committee to make a series of analyses of the air in the sewers under the Houses of Parliament, and to report thereon (see ‘ Second Report of the Committee,’ Appendix). Since then we have examined the air in a considerable number of sewers in Dundee.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Air quality
Received 21 May 1887. Read 16 June 1887. Communicated by Henry Enfield Roscoe.
A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The air of sewers'.
- Reference number
- PP/10/60
- Earliest possible date
- 1887
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 22 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 42, 1887
1887 Reference number: PP/10
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