. Annals of hygiene. ently at the head of the list JensensPepsine, the advertisement of whichappears in this issue. We have re-peatedly used it, and we can recommendit from personal experience. HOW SEWER GAS GETS INTO THE HOUSE. Anyone who walks our thoroughfareswith his eyes heaven-ward, will repeat-edly observe the sanitary defect figuredabove. The pipe to carry rain waterfrom the roof (Fig. A) is carried downinto the sewer, (a very good provision,as it does not then splash the waterover the feet of every passer-by,) butits upper end opens just underneath aneighbors bed-room window, and, inw
. Annals of hygiene. ently at the head of the list JensensPepsine, the advertisement of whichappears in this issue. We have re-peatedly used it, and we can recommendit from personal experience. HOW SEWER GAS GETS INTO THE HOUSE. Anyone who walks our thoroughfareswith his eyes heaven-ward, will repeat-edly observe the sanitary defect figuredabove. The pipe to carry rain waterfrom the roof (Fig. A) is carried downinto the sewer, (a very good provision,as it does not then splash the waterover the feet of every passer-by,) butits upper end opens just underneath aneighbors bed-room window, and, inwarm weather, when this window isopen, foul gases from the sewer arecontinually poisoning the atmosphereof his house. 302 TEE ANNALS OF H YGIEXE. The remedy. Carry the pipe higher he knew all about hygiene. He didup, and do not allow its open end to be know enough to realize that his soil-in proximity to your own or your neigh- pipe ought to be ventilated, but see howbors windows. he went about it. He makes his At B, we see a soil pipe, the owner lating pipe only about } as large as hisof which had never subscribed to The soil pipe, so that while 1 of the sewerAnnals of Hygiene, because he thought gases travelling up the soil-pipe, find THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE 303 their way into the ventilating pipes,the other two-thirds are compelled togo somewhere else, presumably, a por-tion of them, back into his house. Againhe has so arranged affairs that whenthe one-third of the gases does escape,it is to go directly into his attic, to bebreathed by his cook all night, andthen he wonders in the morning whyhis chops are scorched, and his coffeeunfit to drink. He does not know thathis cook is nearly blind with headache,caused by an all-nights inhalation ofsewer gases. We will send him a copyof this journal, and we are sure thatwhen he sees this picture, he will sub-stitute a ventilating pipe as large asthe soil-pipe, and he will carry it wellup above his attic window. If he does,we can
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