. A treatise on hygiene and public health . escription is the plan of subsoil drainage introduced byWiebe and Latham in constructing the sewage-works of Dantzic, andwhich they assert secures all the advantages required in carrying outworks of this character. The method adopted is shown at Figs. 11 and1:>. The sewer proper, S, whether constructed of brickwork or earthen-ware pipes, was first laid in the trench and covered over with a layer ofclay puddle, C, which was well and carefully rammed into position. In Latham : Sanitary Engineering, Chicago, 1877, p. 51. 420 SOIL AND WATER. some case
. A treatise on hygiene and public health . escription is the plan of subsoil drainage introduced byWiebe and Latham in constructing the sewage-works of Dantzic, andwhich they assert secures all the advantages required in carrying outworks of this character. The method adopted is shown at Figs. 11 and1:>. The sewer proper, S, whether constructed of brickwork or earthen-ware pipes, was first laid in the trench and covered over with a layer ofclay puddle, C, which was well and carefully rammed into position. In Latham : Sanitary Engineering, Chicago, 1877, p. 51. 420 SOIL AND WATER. some cases, over the clay, several feet in deptli of the trench were fillecTin with selected gravel, shown by G, Fig. 11, which is perfectly pervious,,and upon this gravel the ordinary materials excavated, E, were placed ;the arrangements for the discharge of the subsoil water were so managedthat every lateral line of sewer is provided with a free discharge into theriver. In other cases the method shown in Fig. 13 was adopted after the liMTaiircixi. iiiiiiiniiia:^
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