Sewer gas and its effects : extracts from the works of the leading sanitary authorities, with special reference to the construction and ventilation of water closets.

Date:
1879
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    the main S trap. This accounts Eor the drain smell in its neigh- bourhood. I have now made all the kitchen drains discharge into the open air through the kitchen wall, where the overflow is caught by a trapped drain. Yours gratefully, * * * In this case, therefore, I have succeeded; and when I tell you that iu that very house some years ago, there was, I believe, a death from typhoid fever, you may judge that it was time for something* preventive to be done. # * # * # » * * FROM SANITARY ENGINEERING, BY BALDWIN LATHAM, C.E., M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., F.M.S. The evil effects arising from the non-ventilation of sewers appear, after the revival of sanitary science in tins country, not to have received any marked attention; the reason pro- bably being that towns generally were in so bad a sanitary condition, as to make it difficult to separate the causes which led to atmospheric pollution and the propagation of disease. So general were nuisances, and so impure had the air of towns been rendered, it is not surprising to find that, until sewerage works were carried out, and the principal nuisances had been abated, the ill effects of non-ventilation of sewers became apparent. Present experience shows that there is something in the air of sewers that is dangerous to health, and pestilent to life itself, and that it is imperative, by proper ventilation, to dispose of, or neutralize the effects of its deadly influence. It should be laid down as a rule that all sewers must bo ventilated, as unventilated sewers may be as dangerous as steam-boilers without safety-valves. * * * *