Excerpt from The Agricultural Value of the Sewage of London, Examined in Reference to the Principal Schemes Submitted to the Metropolitan Board of Works: With Extracts From the Evidence of Chemists, Engineers, and Agriculturists
The Metropolitan Board, which owes its existence to the nuisance of a polluted Thames, and has from the first moment been oppressed with the responsibility of conveying the murky stream to a spot where it would be neither seen nor smelt by the inhabitants of London, takes a less brilliant view of the value of liquid manure prospects, and has, after three years' consideration, adopted, subject to the approval of Parliament, a plan which, in the first place, for ever secures the whole length of the Thames from pollution, and in the next, promises a rent contingent on the profits of the undertaking - which, although far below that promised by the projector patronized by the Common Council of London - will, if the scheme be moderately successful, amount to a sum not to be despised. The Corporation of London, through their Committee, contend that the Metropolitan Board are sacrificing a property worth millions per annum for a term of fifty years, and for an inadequate rent. The answer of the Metropolitan Board is that, after a long investigation and repeated invitations, they have adopted the plan that not only seemed the best for the public health and the most advantageous in an agricultural point of view, but also the only one that had any solid financial prospect of being executed at all. They say they have looked to men as well as measures.
Under these circumstances, it may be useful as well as interesting to present, in a condensed form, information now buried in Parliamentary Blue Books, Board of Health Reports, Farmers' Clubs' Discussions, and other equally bulky, scarce, and uninviting documents.
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