Handbook of sanitary information for householders.

  • Tracy, Roger Sherman, 1841-1926.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Handbook of sanitary information for householders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Privj'-vaults, contents of, 12. dangers of, 22. Pumpelly, 46. Purification of water, 87, 90. Putty-joints, 52, 54. Rat-holes in pipes, 59. Refrigerator wastes, 32. Respiration, organic matter of, 9- Return bend, 43. Rum, 82. Saddle-hubs, 60, 102. Safes, 32, 46. draining of, 32, 54. Safe-wastes, 32, 54. Saleratus, 74. Salt, 67, 70, 89. *'Sanitar)' Engineer, 51. Scarlet fever, precautions vs., 72. propagation of, ir. School-sinks, 34, 42, 102. Seal of trap, 36. Sea-side houses, drainage of, 65. Seine, mud of, 13. Ser^ace-pipes, 86. Sewer-air, effects attributed to, 13. Sewer-gas, composition of, 12. Sewer, house, material of, 26. Sewer-water, 13, Sewers, contents of, 12. private, 26. Sherringham valve, 17. Sick-room, care of, 67, 70. precautions on entering, 73. Sinks, 30. Siphonage, 58. how determined, 62. prevention of, 31, 58. Sirups, 82. Sky-light, louvered, 39. Sleeves, 30, 45. Slops, dangers from, 21. Small-pox, precautions vs.^ 71. propagation of, 11. Smoky chimneys, 20. Smith, Angus, 8. Soil, damp, danger of, 15. Soil-pipe, 35. material and size of 28. Spices, 82. Stables, disinfection of, 94. Starch, 75, 89. Squibb's carbolic acid, 92. Steam in soil-pipes, 33, 50. Steam-coils, heating by, ig. Subsoil drainage, 50. Sugar, 82. Sulphate of copper, 77. of iron, 89, 93. of lime, 94. of zinc, 67, 96. Sulphide of ammonium, 12. Sulphur, 67, 96. use of, in disinfection, 68. Sulphureted hydrogen, 12, 13. Sulphuric acid, 89, 95. Sulphurous acid, 70, 96. Syrups (see Sirups), Tanks for drinking-water, 33, 86. lining of, 33. movable, for excreta, 22. Tarring of pipes, 44, loi. Teas, 83, Terra alba, 74, 75, 77. Test, Cai-pene's, for wine, 85, for carbonic acid, 9. for chlorine, 88. for nitrates, 89. for nitrites, 89.