Hand-book of Sanitary Information for Householders: Containing facts and suggestions about ventilation, drainage, care of contageous diseases, disinfection, food, and water. With appendices on disinfectants and plumbers' materials.Tracy, Roger Sherman
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Hand-book of Sanitary Information for Householders: Containing facts and suggestions about ventilation, drainage, care of contageous diseases, disinfection, food, and water. With appendices on disinfectants and plumbers' materials.
Tracy, Roger Sherman
Disinfection and disinfectants; Drinking water; Food adulteration and inspection; Hygiene; Sanitation, Household; Ventilation
5. Every house or building must be separately and independently
connected with the street-sewer.
6. Where the ground is made or filled in, the house-sewer—that is to
say, the portion of the drain extending from the public sewer to the
front wall—must be of cast-iron, with the joints properly calked with
lead.
7. Where the soil consists of a natural bed of loam, sand, or rock, the
house-sewer may be of hard, salt-glazed, and cylindrical earthenware
pipe, laid on a smooth bottom, free from all projections of rock,
and with the soil well rammed to prevent any settling of the pipe.
Each section must be wetted before applying the cement, and the
space between each hub and the small end of the next section must
be completely and uniformly filled with the best hydraulic cement.
Care must be taken to prevent any cement being forced into the drain
to become an obstruction. No tempered-up cement shall be used. A
straight-edge must be used inside the pipe, and the different sections
must be laid in perfect line on the bottom and sides.
8. Where there is no sewer in the street, and it is necessary to
construct a private sewer to connect with a sewer on an adjacent street
or avenue, it must be laid under the roadway of the street on which
the houses front, and not through the yards or under the houses.
9. The house-drain must be of iron, with a fall of at least one quarter
inch to the foot, if possible, and not more than one inch to the foot.
10. Where water-closets or a school-sink discharge into it, the drain
must be at least four inches in diameter.
11. It must be hung on the cellar wall or ceiling, unless this is
impracticable, in which case it must be laid in a trench cut at a
uniform grade, walled upon the sides with brick laid in hydraulic
cement, and provided with movable covers, and with a hydraulic concrete
base of four inches in thickness, on which the pipe is to rest.
12. It must be laid in a straight line, if possible. All changes in
direction must be made with curved pipes, and all connections with
Y-branch pipes and one-eighth bends.
13. Any house-drain or house-sewer, put in and covered without due
notice to the Health Department, must be uncovered for inspection at
the direction of the inspector.
14. A running or half S-trap must be placed on the house-drain at
an accessible point near the front of the house. This trap must be
furnished with a hand-hole for convenience in cleaning, the cover of
which must be properly fitted and made gas and air tight with some
proper cement.
15. There must be an inlet for fresh air entering the drain just inside
the trap, of at least four inches in diameter, leading to the outer
air and opening at or near the street curb, or at a convenient place
not less than ten feet from the nearest window. No cold-air box for a
furnace shall be so placed that it can by any possibility draw air from
this inlet-pipe. The inlet-pipe should never be carried up to the roof
inside or outside the house.
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