Excerpt from Statistics of Hydraulic Works and Hydrology of England, Canada, Egypt and India Simple and useful practice has very largely extended, after the complete and unfortunate experience of precipitation and Chemical processes. The combined effect of rational water supply and sewage utilisation has been to lower the death-rate, to diminish sickness and consequent poverty, and to encourage the life-preserving habit of personal cleanliness among the great untubbed. Retrogression has, however, shown itself as regards canals, which have now sunk to the lowest state. It is fully known that water-transport for heavy goods is the most economic method; but England suffers from an obstructive class - the plutocrats holding railway shares, and the railway interest, who will do their best to prevent the people from obtaining Cheap transport, from a fear of diminishing their own gains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.