Domestic plumbing and water service / by William White.

  • White, William
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic plumbing and water service / by William White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    decompose even faster than lead. How far this is the case when used for the galvanising of iron, I am not informed. Lead is not decomposed by running water. Directly water becomes stagnant, whether in the pipe or in the cistern, the decom- position begins ; but it would not be possible always to allow it to be running to waste for such a reason as this. The connection between the water- main and the house being usually of lead (this material in fact being insisted on by the Represen- tatives of some Water Companies) is a fair argu- ment against ‘constant service.’ The water left in he pipes is stagnant all through the night, and gets charged with lead for morning use. (8). Some of the Authorities (whether know- 0 ingly or not) are doing their best to make the ‘ constant service ’ unpopular, by allowing re- quirements (which are not properly within their legal powers) to be insisted on by their officers, whereby the Consumer is in danger of considerable damage being done to his house, before he can possibly be made aware of it. ‘ Waste Detectors ’ and ‘ warnings ’ may be necessary ; but surely not if their action involves, in case of anything going wrong, such an inconvenience as the necessary splashing of a whole room with water by the ‘ warn- ing,’ the flooding of it by a leaky ‘detector,’ the necessity of sending for the company’s Inspector with a plumber—vainly perhaps on a Saturday afternoon—before another drop of water can be drawn for use. Let the warning or overflow be