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New Handy Site On Plumbing

Let it be remembered, that when lavatories, sinks and other fixtures are not in use they are gradually losing by evaporation the trapped water seal, and authorities have declared that sewer gas or sulphurated hydrogen is the most poisonous of all the gases of known composition, that it is heavier than the ordinary atmospheric air, that experiments have been made with it by chemical authorities which show that one part of the gas and two of the air will kill animal life. This gas therefore must be removed so far away from us that it cannot return in the form of dangerous invisible gases of decomposition.

It must then be obvious to any person that a thorough system of house drainage and plumbing is necessary in order that the building may be kept free from the pollution in public sewer and its poisonous air.

The remedy for this evil is not so very far away but what it can be very easily reached.

At the proceedings of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography held at Washington, D. C, by the most eminent architects and sanitary engineers in the world, the most important subject discussed was the sanitation of the interiors of houses connected with the public sewers, and it was unanimously adopted that the end and object of the systematic drainage of a house is to endow it with a good system of water supply and discharge for waste water and to regularly flush the interior of the drains by clean pressure water.

Resolved, that the object will be the most certainly attained where the following essential rules are strictly observed: To exclude from the interior of our houses all sewer gas, to avoid pollution of the soil by fecal matter or waste water, to prevent the generation of deleterious gases in the soil and in the air below and around our houses, to discharge as rapidly as possible into the public sewer all fecal matter and waste matter produced.

The application of these essential rules necessitates an intercepting flushing, FRESH AIR INLET TRAP IN THE HOUSE DRAIN, inside main wall of cellar for THE EXCLUSION FROM THE HOUSE OF POLLUTIONS, AND SEWER GAS IN THE PUBLIC SEWERS, a proper system of ventilation, pipes that are air tight and water tight, the employment of proper materials for the pipes, proper dimensions and thicknesses for all pipes, FLUSHING AND CLEANSING JUNCTIONS WITH VERY OBTUSE ANGLES, proper construction of water closets, baths and other sanitary appliances, FACILITY OF ACCESS TO ALL HOUSE DRAIN PIPES FOR FLUSHING. INSPECTION AND TESTING THEM, sufficient CLEAN-OUT CONNECTIONS, periodical visitation and cleansing when necessary.

Every city, town or village in the United States has a plumbing ordinance of their own, and each thinks they have the best.

The plumbing that is shown in this book is the latest and best that can be done, and the illustrations can be followed successfully.

We show crown venting, also continual venting.