The sanitary inspector . rred to above, namely :— First. Leaky joints of short len^hts of sewer pipe (not iron)under the basement floor. Second. The not unusual bad or broken connection between theiron soil pipe and the sewer pipe in the niche in the wall. Third. The passage of gas through the water seal of a W. C,when soil pipe is not extended through the (Under the exact conditions shown in Figure 11 there would not bemuch tendency in the gas to go through the seal of the W. C, becauseit is represented as escaping more readily elsewhere, but with betterconditions below stairs a worse
The sanitary inspector . rred to above, namely :— First. Leaky joints of short len^hts of sewer pipe (not iron)under the basement floor. Second. The not unusual bad or broken connection between theiron soil pipe and the sewer pipe in the niche in the wall. Third. The passage of gas through the water seal of a W. C,when soil pipe is not extended through the (Under the exact conditions shown in Figure 11 there would not bemuch tendency in the gas to go through the seal of the W. C, becauseit is represented as escaping more readily elsewhere, but with betterconditions below stairs a worse one would be above.) THE SANITARY INSPECTOR. 119 Fourth. In Figure 12 sewer gas in the cellar owing to evaporationof water seal in a badly formed shallow trap. The dotted lines under the cellar floor in , showing subsoil drainage and a deep sealtrap, is the method suggested in remarks underFig. 10, of avoiding the liability of illness in-cident to the presence of sewer-gas under theold and represented P; Fig. 12. ^nm 120 THE SANITARY INSPECTOR. has lately succeeded in producing a substance which,although in its composition it bears not the least relationship to sugar,exceeds it about 280 fold in sweetness. When one part of this sub-stance is dissolved in 70,000 parts of distilled water, the solu-tion still tastes sweet, while one part of sugar is capable of impartingto only 250 parts of water a sweetness which is perceptible to thetasta. The term by which the German chemists designate this body isorthosulfaminvenzoesaureanhydrid, but fortunately for our maxillarybones they permit the rank and file of us to call it saccharin. Typhoid. Fever Discussion. At a late meeting of the medical society of the county of Kings,New York, an interesting discussion on typhoid fever took Raymond, referring to the prevalence of this disease in Brook-lyn in 1885, said: A case would break out in one house and in twoor three weeks it would appear i
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