The sanitation of domestic buildings / by Frank Latham.

  • Latham, Frank.
Date:
[1898]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The sanitation of domestic buildings / by Frank Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / 2 too late to prevent the disease and suffering which ensue. The writer has such an instance of neglect and its result before him, where a gentleman occu- pied a house for some time. Towards the end of his term, he and his family suffered from illness eventuating in death, which was attributed to the condition of the house drains. An Inspector was sent to examine and report upon the state of these, but was refused admittance, and only some slight exterior reparation was done in connection there- with. His successor, being more enlightened in sani- tary matters, before entering upon his residence in the house caused a thorough examination of its sanitary condition to be made, when it was found that the drain, which passed beneath the floor, was without proper joints, the pipes being occa- sionally some inches apart, several barrow loads of black, rank, sewage having accumulated beneath the floor. The foregoing is too often typical of the worst form of ignorance and neglect of sanitation ; but there are many other cases of a less glaring cha- racter which have been the cause of much disease, misery, and loss, emphasising the fact that the necessity for good sanitation is shared in and demanded by the whole community, the neglect of it, although it may be only an individual instance, endangering a wide area — either directly or indirectly—by its alarming and deadly results. A water supply contaminated through leaky drains, or imperfect condition of sanitary apparatus, may be distributed throughout a district with fatal