. Camps, billets, cooking . in of the water, but alsoattracts flies. A good plan is to fill the reception-pits orthe upper ends of the drainage channels with coarse brush-wood, bracken, or gorse, which catches and holds the greaseand other organic solids, allowing the clearer liquid to runfreely away into a soakage-pit, the earth at the bottom ofwhich has been loosened by a pick (Fig. 20). 3. Grease-Traps.—An alternative plan is the following:Take two large biscuit-tins, and place one inside the other,the inner one resting on two or three stones, so as to leavea space between it and the outer
. Camps, billets, cooking . in of the water, but alsoattracts flies. A good plan is to fill the reception-pits orthe upper ends of the drainage channels with coarse brush-wood, bracken, or gorse, which catches and holds the greaseand other organic solids, allowing the clearer liquid to runfreely away into a soakage-pit, the earth at the bottom ofwhich has been loosened by a pick (Fig. 20). 3. Grease-Traps.—An alternative plan is the following:Take two large biscuit-tins, and place one inside the other,the inner one resting on two or three stones, so as to leavea space between it and the outer one (Fig. 21). The innerone serves as a coarse strainer, and the outer to direct thewater over and into a small pit filled with grass, heather,or brushwood, which acts as a grease-trap. From this small 82 SANITATION 20 pit cut a shallow trench leading to a large lower tin can be given a spout, conveniently made bycutting an inverted U- or V-shaped flap from one of thesides, turning down, and rounding Fig. 20.—Grease-Trap for Camps. Perforated by smalt nailSpout
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