THE RAT-CATCHERS OF THE SEWERS.
[From a Daguerreotype by Beard.]
Of the Cesspoolage and Nightmen of the Metropolis.
I have already shown—it may be necessary to remind the reader—that there are two modes of removing the wet refuse of the metropolis: the one by carrying it off by means of sewers, or, as it is designated, sewerage; and the other by depositing it in some neighbouring cesspool, or what is termed cesspoolage.
The object of sewerage is “to transport the wet refuse of a town to a river, or some powerfully current stream, by a series of ducts.” By the system of cesspoolage, the wet refuse of the household is collected in an adjacent tank, and when the reservoir is full, the contents are removed to some other part.
LONDON NIGHTMEN.
[From a Daguerreotype by Beard.]