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
41. All water-closets within the house must be supplied with water from
special tanks or cisterns, the water of which is not used for any other
purpose. The closets must never be supplied directly from the Croton
supply-pipes. A group of closets may be supplied from one tank; but
water-closets on different floors are not permitted to be flushed from
one tank.
42. The valves of cisterns must be so fitted and adjusted as to prevent
wasting of water, especially where cisterns are supplied from a tank on
the roof.
43. The overflow-pipes from water-closet cisterns must discharge into
an open sink, or where its discharge will attract attention and
indicate that waste of water is occurring, but not into the bowl of
the water-closet, not into the soil or waste pipe, nor into the drain
or sewer. When the pressure of the Croton is not sufficient to supply
these tanks, a pump must be provided.
44. Tanks for drinking-water are objectionable; if indispensable,
they must never be lined with lead, galvanized iron, or zinc. They
should be constructed of iron, or wood lined with tinned and planished
copper. The overflow should discharge upon the roof, or be trapped
and discharge into an open sink, never into any soil or waste pipe or
water-closet trap, nor into the drain or sewer.
45. Rain-water leaders must never be used as soil, waste, or vent
pipes; nor shall any soil, waste, or vent pipe be used as a leader.
46. When within the house, the leader must be of cast-iron, with leaded
joints; when outside of the house, and connected with the house-drain,
it must be trapped beneath the ground or just inside of the wall, the
trap being arranged in either case so as to prevent freezing. In every
case where a leader opens near a window or a light-shaft, it must be
properly trapped at its base.
47. No steam exhaust or blow-off pipe from a steam-boiler will be
allowed to connect with any soil or waste pipe, or directly with the
house-drain. They should discharge into a tank or condenser, the
waste from which, if to be discharged into the sewer through the
house-drain, must be connected on the sewer side of the running trap.
48. Subsoil drains must be provided whenever necessary.
49. Yards and areas should always be properly graded, cemented,
flagged, or well paved, and properly drained; when the drain is
connected with the house-drain, it must be effectively trapped.
Front-area drains must, where practicable, be connected with the
house-drain inside of the running trap.
50. Cellar and foundation walls must, where possible, be rendered
impervious to dampness, and the use of asphaltum or coal-tar pitch, in
addition to hydraulic cement, is recommended for that purpose.
51. No privy-vault or school-sink will be allowed in any cellar or
basement; nor shall the general privy accommodation of a tenement or
lodging house be allowed to be in the cellar or basement.
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