Women, plumbers, and doctors, or, Household sanitation / by H.M. Plunkett.

  • Harriette Merrick Plunkett
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Women, plumbers, and doctors, or, Household sanitation / by H.M. Plunkett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    secure pure kerosene from manufacturers and dealers—How Legisla- tures change laws through influences brought to bear by corporations —Dangerous oils sold under fanciful names, and to be treated to be rendered safe —Oil-stoves. CHAPTER V. Wholesome Watee 72 The water-supply—Wells—Temporary measures of security against bad water — Hard waters —Springs—Specific diseases produced by using waters containing certain chemical substances—Cisterns— Simple tests for contaminated water—Brooks, streams, and rivers— Diminished death-rate and pure water—Lead-poisoning from lead service-pipes—Tanks. CHAPTER YL Seweeage and Plumbing 92 Sanitary definitions—What is the object of a system of plumb- ing ?—What is a system of house-drainage ?—Removal of excreta— Water-carriage system—Sewers—Plumbers—The sanitary engineer— Systematic house-inspection—Bad plumbing in fine houses—Good plumbing is never cheap—A sanitary carpet—A properly-plumbed house—Plumbing repairs—Fungus in a library—Beware of dummy pipes. CHAPTER VIL Sewee-Gas and Geems •. 130 Sewer-gas: why we must keep it out—Disease-germs—Typhoid fever from contaminated well-water (Flint)—Epidemic of typhoid at North Tawton, England (Budd)—Typhoid fever in the city of New York in the autumn of 1883—Impure ice—Scattering schools when infected with contagious diseases—Checking the spread of typhoid fever—Unsanitary surroundings and typhoid fever—A study of the development of one germ—The germ-theory of disease—How the disease-germs grow—The present state of our knowledge of these germs—Small-pox and vaccination—How to vaccinate—Revaccination.
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