The sanitary drainage of houses and towns / by George E. Waring.

  • Waring, George E., Jr. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The sanitary drainage of houses and towns / by George E. Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. ♦ Ash-closets, 214, 271, 275, 280. Ashes for earth-closets, 250. Batayia (N. Y.), removal of malarious condition, 109. Bath-tubs, 103. Blunt s overflow for Jennings's closet, 79. Boards of Health of England. Gen- eral conclusions as to sanitary drain- age, 118. Boards of Health should decide what may be admitted to the sewer, 117. Boards of Health should regulate the sites of houses, 12, 57. Boston, its drainage, 64. Brick sewers, objections to, 146. Brierly, typhoid at, 40. Broad Street pump, 68. Brooklyn, amount of sewage, 129. Capacity of sewers, 134, 136,138. Causation of disease (Dr. Simon), 35. Cellar drainage, 74. Cellars, 73, 83, 84. Cellars, flooding of, 128. Cement pipes for sewers, 145. Cerebro-spinal meningitis, 53, 96, 101. Cess-pool, 79, 80, 89,107. Charcoal ventilators, 159. Chimneys and flues for sewer ventila- tion, 156. Chimneys, house-drain ventilators in, 93. Choking of sewers, 133. Cholera, bad drainage, 53. Cholera, mortality from, 20. Cleansing sewers, 165. Closets, water, 78, 79, 190, 193. Construction of sewers, 180. Consumption from moisture, 44. Contagions and miasms, 57. Contamination of soil, 82. Contamination of wells, 81. Country house-drainage, 79. Crossbill, typhoid at, 40. Croydon, cost and value of sewer- age, 115. Croydon, typhoid and sewer ventila- tion, 109,112,151,157. Dampness, 48, 73. Dams for flushing sewers, 167. Death-rate in London at different pe- riods, 21. Death-rates in England, 18. Decomposing matter in cellars, 83, 84. Denton and Field's sewage tank, 319. Deodorizing, 91. Deposits in sewers, 144. Derby, Dr., without filth typhoid is not born, 56. Details of house drainage, 186. Diarrhoea, 96. Diphtheria, 53, 54, 55, 96,101. Diphtheria, and sewer gas, 44. Discharge of sewage at different houses, 133. Diseases from sewer gas, 96. Disease, stamping out sources of, 88. Disinfectants, not reliable, 57. Disinfectants, objectionable, 165. Disinfection, 90, 91. Disposal of house slops, 196, 329. Disposal of sewage, 314. Drainage, as affecting fever and ague. 45,48,50. s ' Drainage entails responsibility,79. Drainage, from kitchen sinks, 75. Drainage of houses, 186. Drainage of towns, 105. Drains and sewers, sizes of, 135. Drains, dangers of, 91. Drains, private, 106,177, 206, 208. Drains, ventilation of, 91, 95. Drinking-water, 80, 81, 82, 83. Drinking-water, infected, 26, 27, 66. 67, 68. Dry conservancy system, 213. Dry earth, 90-93. Dry-earth system, 68, 213. Dysentery, 53. Earth-closet apparatus, 244. Earth-closet, ashes may be used in, 250. Earth-closet, hygienic advantages, 263. Earth-closet, manure from, 225, 234 258. Earth-closet, management of, 217.