A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . CessPool- How a well located on high ground may be polluted by the contents of a cesspool lower down. In locating wells and cesspools, property owners not infrequentlylose sight of the fact that, while they can govern the disposition of thesurface of their respective estates, the conditions that obtain in the soilbelow are quite beyond their control. In consequence, they mayattempt to guard against pollution of their own water supplies by theirown excretory products, without regarding the possibility of contami-natio
A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . CessPool- How a well located on high ground may be polluted by the contents of a cesspool lower down. In locating wells and cesspools, property owners not infrequentlylose sight of the fact that, while they can govern the disposition of thesurface of their respective estates, the conditions that obtain in the soilbelow are quite beyond their control. In consequence, they mayattempt to guard against pollution of their own water supplies by theirown excretory products, without regarding the possibility of contami-nation by those of their neighbors. Fig. How a cesspool located on high ground may fail to pollute a well lower down. The water of newly dug wells is often of such a character as to leadto the perhaps false conclusion that it is probably polluted by is generally turbid, and may, on analysis, yield results which, incase the analyst has not full information concerning it, may seem towarrant a condemnatory report. It may yield figures indicating a highcontent of organic matters, which may disappear as the use of the (Jno UNI) - \VA ii:iis. .\ ,i(r l)(!(,()rn(!S ((Hliihlislu^d. I( tuny <V«ii sliow cvihricc of(li(! pn^scrKU! of liiniiMri wmsIcs, fur llio,-c r?|l^^l{_r(•(l in tin- •^; andtlu) Htoiiiii^ iiy I Iliiic iiil(i(-(<(| III llic coiiiplcli*!!) (»f tin; \vinclin to lll(i SUrliuH! (or llic |)lll|iOSC oC relieving; (he cull- oIlKitlirc. ()n ;i|| ;ir-- counls, (Ji(!r((orc, i
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