Sewer gas & how to keep it out of houses : a handbook on house drainage / by Osborne Reynolds.

  • Reynolds, Osborne.
Date:
1872
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sewer gas & how to keep it out of houses : a handbook on house drainage / by Osborne Reynolds. 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.

    23/44 (page 19)
    n.] the cellar or some other drain, the splash at the bottom is apt to leave a deposit, as shown in Fig. 4, on the upper side of the connection, which can only be removed by a flush down the drain from some other source. When practicable, all junctions should be effected with curved bends such as those shown in Fig. 5, so that when the pipes come together their contents may be flowing as nearly as possible in the same directions. Perhaps of all the drains in the house that from the cellar is the most liable to be the source of mischief. It is the lowest and consequently has the worst fall, and if its lawful contents are not of an offensive kind, yet, owing to its position, it often receives the contents of its more ill-favoured neighbours. Besides this, it is out of the way, it gets less attention than the others, and in many cases it is not directly used, and so has not the advantage of an occasional flushing. In many old houses in the country it is constructed of brick or of unglazed pipes. In modern houses it is of glazed earthenware pipes about five or six inches across, and sometimes as much as nine. These are all larger than is necessary, a 3 or 4 inch pipe with a fall of f inch to the yard is amply sufficient. In many houses, such as those in the neighbourhood of Manchester, there are cellars (not kitchens) under the whole house, and each cellar has its gully and drain. Now, it may be convenient to have sinks all over the house; but when we come to think how seldonj these cellars are washed, or indeed have any water in them, it seems almost unnecessary to have drains all over them just to save the servants the trouble of occasionally B 2