Events of to-day become history of to-morrow, and no history would be complete without recounting contemporaneous facts and events. So it is with sanitation; no history of that subject would be complete without illustrating a few of the plumbing fixtures in use at the time the record was written. We of the present age believe, as did those of a generation ago, that we have almost attained perfection in the manufacture of plumbing fixtures; but have we, or will succeeding generations look back upon what we consider good as we do upon the fixtures in vogue in the early 70's? This we do not know nor can we foresee. Time alone will tell. [Illustration: A Twentieth Century Bathroom] [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [1] _Ewbank's Hydraulics._ [2] _Engineering Record_, Oct. 21, 1905 [3] Wanklyn and Cooper. [4] Water Supply. [5] Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health. [6] The complete original report is entitled "Report on the Cholera Outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the Autumn of 1854. Presented to the Vestry by the Cholera Inquiry Committee, July, 1855. London, J. Churchill, 1855." [7] _Typhoid Fever, its Nature, Mode of Spreading and Prevention._ [8] _Sixth Report_, London, 1874. [9] _Cholera Prospects and Prevention._ * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Minor punctuation and printer errors repaired. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_, bold text by =equal signs= and font changes by ~tildes~. End of Project Gutenberg's History of Sanitation, by John Joseph Cosgrove