Bad drains : and how to test them : with notes on the ventilation of sewers, drains, and sanitary fittings, and the origin and transmission of zymotic disease. / cby R. Harris Reeves.

  • Reeves, R. Harris.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Bad drains : and how to test them : with notes on the ventilation of sewers, drains, and sanitary fittings, and the origin and transmission of zymotic disease. / cby R. Harris Reeves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    BAD DEAINS : they have failed, especially those in connection with sewage farms and the ventilation of sewers. I will quote a few extracts from these reports:— No injury to health can possibly take place from gas issuing from properly constructed gratings fixed in the middle of the road, and if one is a nuisance, dig down and put in others until the nuisance is removed. This has certainly not been the case. You may dig as many holes as you like, and put in as many gratings, yet some will be injurious to health. In describing sewage farms, they were described as being (if adopted) the means of securing a large revenue to the Local Board by the excellent crops grown, one engineer stating that persons could walk through them with as much pleasure as through a flower or kitchen garden ; but practical experience has proved this to be incorrect: and although these statements were made in good faith, they have not been realised. You may regulate the irrigation of a sewage farm to such a nicety that no odour from the sewage is perceptible in the district; yet the atmo- sphere will contain poisons which will have a very detrimental effect on the health of those living there. For a few years after sewage farms have been laid out, they pay, and you get good crops from them,