. Public health and preventive medicine. tilating portion of the soil pipe, which is afterwards drain grenades of thin glass filled with pungent chemicals formanother device for drain-testing, as does Kemps drain tester, which acts bya combination of smoke and smell. The contents of the tester are washeddown, and the case withdrawn by a string to see that the contents have all beenexpelled. If a bad smell, apart from that of gas, be felt in a house, it may in the basement, from—? (1) A leaking or fractured drain pipe. Defective jointing is common, asis damage done by r
. Public health and preventive medicine. tilating portion of the soil pipe, which is afterwards drain grenades of thin glass filled with pungent chemicals formanother device for drain-testing, as does Kemps drain tester, which acts bya combination of smoke and smell. The contents of the tester are washeddown, and the case withdrawn by a string to see that the contents have all beenexpelled. If a bad smell, apart from that of gas, be felt in a house, it may in the basement, from—? (1) A leaking or fractured drain pipe. Defective jointing is common, asis damage done by rats. (2) A disused brick-built drain. (3) A cesspoolactive or extinct. In a country-house a sink smell is usually due to anunventilated cesspool, the gases in which may be explosive. (4) A trap atthe foot of the soil pipe. (5) Untrapped or unventilated waste-water gullies.(6) Bad trapping of drams or neglect of flushing. (7) If ammoniacal, aconnection of the house drains with stable drains. (8) Dead animals. (9)Wood rot, wet or Fig. 178.—Eclipse smoke generator.
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