AN UNDERGROUND GUIDE TO SEWERS: Or--Down, Through & Out in Paris, London, New York &c

Traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infrastructures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period. Celebrates the work of civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought an end to the cholera epidemics of the 19th century. Well illustrated some in color.