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
29. Every water-closet, urinal, sink, basin, wash-tray, bath, and every
tub or set of tubs, must be separately and effectively trapped, except
where a sink and wash-tubs immediately adjoin each other, in which case
the waste-pipe from the tubs may be connected with the inlet side of
the sink-trap; in such a case the tub waste-pipe is not required to be
separately trapped.
30. Traps must be placed as near the fixtures as practicable, and in no
case shall a trap be more than two feet from the fixture.
31. All exit-pipes must be provided with strong metallic strainers.
32. In no case shall the waste from a bath-tub or other fixture be
connected with a water-closet trap.
33. Traps must be protected from siphonage, and the waste-pipe leading
from them ventilated, by a special air-pipe, in no case less than two
inches in diameter for water-closet traps, and one inch and a half for
other traps. Except in private dwellings, the vertical vent-pipes for
traps of water-closets in buildings more than four stories in height
must be at least three inches in diameter, with two-inch branches to
each trap, and for traps of other fixtures not less than two inches in
diameter, with branches one and a half inches in diameter, unless the
trap is smaller, in which case the diameter of branch vent-pipe must
be at least equal to the diameter of the trap. In all cases vertical
vent-pipes must be of cast or wrought iron.
34. These pipes must either extend two feet above the highest part
of the roof or coping, the extension to be not less than four inches
in diameter to avoid obstruction from frost, or they may be branched
into a soil-pipe above the inlet from the highest fixture. They may be
combined by branching together those which serve several traps. These
air-pipes must always have a continuous slope, to avoid collecting
water by condensation.
35. Traps of fixtures near the fresh-air inlet may be ventilated by
being connected with it.
36. No trap vent-pipe shall be used as a waste or soil pipe.
37. Overflow-pipes from fixtures must, in each case, be connected on
the inlet side of the trap.
38. Every safe under a wash-basin, bath, urinal, water-closet, or other
fixture, must be drained by a special pipe not directly connected with
any soil-pipe, waste-pipe, drain, or sewer, but discharging into an
open sink, upon the cellar-floor, or outside the house.
39. The waste-pipe from a refrigerator shall not be directly connected
with the soil or waste pipe, or with the drain or sewer, or discharge
into the soil; it should discharge into an open sink. Such waste-pipes
should be so arranged as to admit of frequent flushing, and should be
as short as possible, and disconnected from the refrigerator.
40. The sediment-pipe from kitchen boilers must be connected on the
inlet side of the sink-trap.
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