Various papers in the Proceedings of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain. Various papers in the Proceedings of the Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors. Various papers from the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. Various papers from the Reports on the Application of Science and Art to Street Paving. Various reports by Mr. Haywood, Engineer to the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. Various reports by Mr. Till, Surveyor of Birmingham. Various reports of Commissions, etc. [252] Mr. Parry, C.E., Borough Surveyor of Reading, says, “My experience of such works is that town authorities can obtain both labour and materials cheaper than contractors, and with efficient supervision the work costs less money.” (_Vide_ ‘Proceedings of the Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors,’ vol. iv. p. 89.) INDEX. Abattoirs, 328 Abrasion of stone, 48 Accidents to horses, 31 Accommodation in Cattle Market, 345 Acland, Dr., on the surveyor, 4 Acquisition of sewers, 252 Acreage of sewage farms, 265 Action of earth on sewage, 266 Additions to old buildings, 210 Advantage of plants for sewage, 270 Advantages of asphalte, 99 ---- public abattoirs, 343 ---- separate system, 261 ---- steam rolling, 70 ---- wood paving, 89 Alleys and courts if cleansed, 238 Allotting numbers, 154 Alteration of old building to new, 209 American footpath, 114 ---- paving, 77 ---- road rolling, 65 Analysis of asphalte, 97 Angell Lewis on the surveyor, 6 Angles of roads, 30 Annihilation of sewer gases, 277 Application to borrow, 376 Appointment of surveyor, 1, 3, 10, 18 Arc lights, 144 Area of cemeteries, 354, 363 ---- sewers, 253, 254 Artificial asphalte, 117 ---- stone pavements, 116 Artizans’ dwellings, 284, 291 Ashpits, 226 Asphalte, Mac Adam, 46 ---- mastic, 107 ---- roadways, 96 Asphaltic wood pavement, 82 Automatic flushing, 262 Aveling and Porter’s roller, 68 Awnings over paths, 184 Bargains. See Contracts Bars opening outwards, 178 Bayley’s hydrostatic van, 245 Best stones for pitchers, 75 Bitumen, 96 Bituminous concrete, 78 ---- mixture, 79 ---- roadways, 46 Binding for roads, 62 Blinds over paths, 184 Blood-house, 341 Books on drainage, 315 ---- useful, 384 Borrowing, 375 Borders for paths, 320 Bottles and brickbats, 225 Bottoming roadways, 37 Breakages in pipe sewers, 258 Breaking stone, 48, 51 Breaking-up streets, 157 Brick footpaths, 116 Bridges over streets, 33 Broad irrigation, 265 Brown’s street watering, 243 Buildings, dangerous, 188 ---- projections of, 176 ---- new, 206 ---- setting back, 175 Buddle hole, 128 Bullock lairs, 346 ---- rollers, 60 Burial fees, 356 ---- in clay, 354 Burners, gas, 140 Burning refuse, 233 Butchers, 329, 334 Byelaws for new streets, &c., 206