Excerpt from The Rudiments of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 1 That, in fact, our legislators are often misled in these matters, must be evident to any one who recalls the history of the Sanitary Movement, as it is called, within the last few years. It would be difficult to say how this unfortunate tendency is to be effectually combated; but, at any rate, it is the duty even of the writer of a Rudimentary Treatise, to call attention to. 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.