Author: Francis Ingram Palmer

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781230411316

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...by proposals involving the provision of large powers and ample funds by Act of Parliament. If this scheme seemed so important in 1870, eighteen years after the date of the then most recent great flood, why in 1877 is it passed over as only worthy of historical mention, when two great floods have occurred in the interval? We entirely agree with the Conservators that, if excessive floods are to be dealt with, a searching preliminary inquiry should be instituted. It appears to us, however, that this inquiry should take a somewhat different direction than any contemplated by the Conservators. The reasoning of this report, though perfectly natural in a body in which the river and landowning interests are almost exclusively represented, is very inadequate to the necessity of the case. The Conservators argue as though the question under consideration turned wholly on a calculation to be made by the riparian landowners whether, on the balance, they lose as much by the floods as they would have to pay for the works required to prevent or lessen them. When large towns and numerous villages lie along the course of a river, the decision whether a flood or the works by which a flood is prevented are the more costly is not the only one to be considered. The injuries done to towns like Oxford and Reading and Windsor cannot be estimated by any return from the riparian landowners. Such a return takes no notice of the suffering inflicted on a very poor class of persons; of the heavy burden which the rate levied to relieve this suffering inflicts on a class a little, and only a little, better off; of the epidemics or general ill-health, scarcely less fatal, at all events from an economic point of view, than epidemics, which constantly follow upon floods....

Download or read book Floods in the Thames Valley, and the Relief of London Bridge and Its Approaches written by Francis Ingram Palmer and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...by proposals involving the provision of large powers and ample funds by Act of Parliament. If this scheme seemed so important in 1870, eighteen years after the date of the then most recent great flood, why in 1877 is it passed over as only worthy of historical mention, when two great floods have occurred in the interval? We entirely agree with the Conservators that, if excessive floods are to be dealt with, a searching preliminary inquiry should be instituted. It appears to us, however, that this inquiry should take a somewhat different direction than any contemplated by the Conservators. The reasoning of this report, though perfectly natural in a body in which the river and landowning interests are almost exclusively represented, is very inadequate to the necessity of the case. The Conservators argue as though the question under consideration turned wholly on a calculation to be made by the riparian landowners whether, on the balance, they lose as much by the floods as they would have to pay for the works required to prevent or lessen them. When large towns and numerous villages lie along the course of a river, the decision whether a flood or the works by which a flood is prevented are the more costly is not the only one to be considered. The injuries done to towns like Oxford and Reading and Windsor cannot be estimated by any return from the riparian landowners. Such a return takes no notice of the suffering inflicted on a very poor class of persons; of the heavy burden which the rate levied to relieve this suffering inflicts on a class a little, and only a little, better off; of the epidemics or general ill-health, scarcely less fatal, at all events from an economic point of view, than epidemics, which constantly follow upon floods....