. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. -time, what can ? Theaccompanying cutshows a piece ol leadsoil-pipe cut from theend of a longer piecewhich was takenfrom a house recent-ly by Mr. Mur-ray, of this city. The-connection with thecloset had been mostcarefully made, and ajoint which had beenin use for twenty years was as perfect as whenfirst made. This was creditable to the plumberof primitive days, when the trade was supposedto be in its infancy. But good workmanship didnot secure the occupants of the premises againstsewer-gas. The
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. -time, what can ? Theaccompanying cutshows a piece ol leadsoil-pipe cut from theend of a longer piecewhich was takenfrom a house recent-ly by Mr. Mur-ray, of this city. The-connection with thecloset had been mostcarefully made, and ajoint which had beenin use for twenty years was as perfect as whenfirst made. This was creditable to the plumberof primitive days, when the trade was supposedto be in its infancy. But good workmanship didnot secure the occupants of the premises againstsewer-gas. The lead was almost entirely eatenaway by corrosion on opposite sides, as indicat-ed, at points about corresponding to the surfaceof the water which flowed through it from thecloset. It seems evident that some chemicalsubstance had been gradually deposited uponthe surface of the lead which did the this specimen came from a private house, itis not easy to understand what the mischief-maker was. Mr. Murray also found in another house a gal-vanized-iron soil-pipe, which had been doing. service for fifteen years or so, and apparentlywith as much success as the lead pipe discoveredin the other case. A section of this pipe, whichhe kindly brought to this office, is also shown inthe drawing. The difficulty which the original erly love. Such is a faint outline of what ourassociation has accomplished up to to the pres-ent time; and this has been accomplished in theface of many discouragements, the worst ofwhich has been the ill-disguised sneers and in-
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