Practical sanitation; a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others;with apxon Sanitary law, by Herbert Manley . t ter-minated about 8 feetabove. This air-pipeat its junction withthe soil-pipe was cur-tailed to 1J inches bya short piece of pipe,and before its exit itreceived the overflowfrom the large ser-vice-cistern above. Ofcourse, the effect ofsuch an arrangementFig. 85. for ventilation would be practically nil, and, as a matter of fact, it was absolutely so, for,in passing through the wall, the pipe took a downward in place ofan upward course, thus forming a bend, which at the time of in-
Practical sanitation; a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others;with apxon Sanitary law, by Herbert Manley . t ter-minated about 8 feetabove. This air-pipeat its junction withthe soil-pipe was cur-tailed to 1J inches bya short piece of pipe,and before its exit itreceived the overflowfrom the large ser-vice-cistern above. Ofcourse, the effect ofsuch an arrangementFig. 85. for ventilation would be practically nil, and, as a matter of fact, it was absolutely so, for,in passing through the wall, the pipe took a downward in place ofan upward course, thus forming a bend, which at the time of in-spection was full of water discharged from the cistern it been the intention of the plumber to trap the air-pipe, toprevent the possibility of air passing along it, he could not havesucceeded better, as there was no doubt about the water beingpermanently there, because the cistern was, filled by means of aforce-pump from the well, and must, therefore, have constantlyreached the level of the overflow-pipe. The cistern overflow-pipe was 1J inches in diameter, but it also, before joining the soil-. C, Overflow nar-rowed by smallerpipe introduced. D, Old D-trap. E, Ventilatingpipe passing outwith downwardbend. 134 PRACTICAL SANITATION. pipe ventilator, was curtailed to 1^ inches, and in its course withinthe wall an old D-trap was fixed. This by no means exhausts all the faults found in connectionwith this water-closet, for, on exposing the drain between thehouse and the syphon-trap referred to above, it was found to con-sist of odd pipes, i inches and 6 inches in diameter, united indis-criminately along its course, some of them even without sockets,and those that had having clay-joints, the result being that,notwithstanding a good fall, the drain was more than half full ofdeposit. One would have thought that, before fixing the inter-cepting trap a few years previously, the condition of the drainwould have been ascertained; but experience teaches us not to
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