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Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Reports from Committees
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Metropolitan Board of Works
Author: Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England)
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Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Index to the Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons: 1800-1845
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Reports from Select Committees of H.C., and Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library
Author: Massachusetts State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
Author: David Edward Owen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674358850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674358850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.