The sanitary inspector . ution aims at something new. Nowherein the United States are the diseases quarantined against. These twodiseases kill more people than any others. House Flumbixi^ and Drainage.—IZ. By E. C. Jordan, c. e., Member State Board of Health. Plumbing Fixtures. The water-closet, the set wash bowl, bath-tubs and kitchen sinks,with their traps, constitute the principal fixtures in house plumbing,and their variety is very great. I have referred to only two of thevarious water-closets and in both those cases to warn you againstthem, and of others I shall say but little. Only a few
The sanitary inspector . ution aims at something new. Nowherein the United States are the diseases quarantined against. These twodiseases kill more people than any others. House Flumbixi^ and Drainage.—IZ. By E. C. Jordan, c. e., Member State Board of Health. Plumbing Fixtures. The water-closet, the set wash bowl, bath-tubs and kitchen sinks,with their traps, constitute the principal fixtures in house plumbing,and their variety is very great. I have referred to only two of thevarious water-closets and in both those cases to warn you againstthem, and of others I shall say but little. Only a few of them allserve their purpose well, and among those I shall first mention themost economical, and secondly the most expensive fixtures. Figure 128 THE SANITARY INSPECTOR. 13 is a diagram intended to represent a class of flushing rim shorthoppers set as thej should be with as little boxing about them as pos-sible. Incidentally it represents Tuckers cast iron, porcelain-linedhopper, as manufactured by J. L. Mott, N. Fig. general form of hopper has several manufacturers and can alsobe obtained completely made of earthen ware. The flow of water THE SANITARY INSPECTOR. 129 should be such that it will drive before it all the soil and paper left inthe hopper, and this cannot be done bj the small stream from the di-rect service pipe, but is only properly accomplished by water from aspecial tank set directly over the hopper and six or eight feet aboveit, from which the water should flow through a large-sized (1J or IJ)pipe direct to the rim of the hopper. Aim to have the pipe with aslittle it as possible between tank and hopper, and insistupon the large size mentioned (when cistern is at the lesser height)and a large outlet valve in the tank. Such an arrangement is reallythe most economical in its use of water, from the fact that just thequantity necessary for Water carriage is contributed in a manner toperform the labor of forcibly excavating the soil out o
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