. The sanitation of a country house. Fig. 7.—Box for Fig. S.—Garden-bed SHOWING Cover for Garbage-holb,Drains, etc. Waste Disposal. 63 will creep through a screen of thesmallest mesh. The non-combustible part of therubbish, such as bottles, tin cans,scraps of metal, etc., can usually be soldto the junk-dealer; and the combus-tible part, if not salable, shoiild, ofcourse, be destroyed by fire. Ashescan be used in almost any place forfilling, making paths, or for a foundationunder pavements, than which there isnothing better, the engineers say. We have now to consider that cl
. The sanitation of a country house. Fig. 7.—Box for Fig. S.—Garden-bed SHOWING Cover for Garbage-holb,Drains, etc. Waste Disposal. 63 will creep through a screen of thesmallest mesh. The non-combustible part of therubbish, such as bottles, tin cans,scraps of metal, etc., can usually be soldto the junk-dealer; and the combus-tible part, if not salable, shoiild, ofcourse, be destroyed by fire. Ashescan be used in almost any place forfilling, making paths, or for a foundationunder pavements, than which there isnothing better, the engineers say. We have now to consider that classof country houses — generally of thesmaller kind—where a sewerage systemis not available, and for such we canadopt one of two plans for the disposalof excreta. The first plan is simply thecemented pit—sides and bottom thor-oughly cemented and water-tight; thecontents of course, to be emptied on 64 Sanitation of a Country House. cultivated land and ploughed leaking privy pit so sommon in allcountry districts should be absolutelyabolished—^if this
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