A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . ^ local conditions. In dry (^»iin-trics, whore every dro[) oC is |)rccioiiH, tliere can ho no doubt thatit is the ideal pnKifidiirc In (alifbrnia and Hirnihir rojfioiiH of theUnited Statics it is likely t(» bo tlu! |)rovailin^ niotliod of >-(!wa^e iraxi-monl,. in India tlu; rice fields at Madras and olscwlicro are irri^rat^-dwith H(!wago, with niarlcod snecoss. On the other hand, it sr-onis i\\\\U\as certain that sewap^e farming on heavy land is a niistako. TheI<jn<j:;lish comniunilios, which have eh
A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . ^ local conditions. In dry (^»iin-trics, whore every dro[) oC is |)rccioiiH, tliere can ho no doubt thatit is the ideal pnKifidiirc In (alifbrnia and Hirnihir rojfioiiH of theUnited Statics it is likely t(» bo tlu! |)rovailin^ niotliod of >-(!wa^e iraxi-monl,. in India tlu; rice fields at Madras and olscwlicro are irri^rat^-dwith H(!wago, with niarlcod snecoss. On the other hand, it sr-onis i\\\\U\as certain that sewap^e farming on heavy land is a niistako. TheI<jn<j:;lish comniunilios, which have ehinp; to sowafrr- farming- inidcr ad-verse natural conditions, have demonstrated that it may be u failure,and a (iostly one. Fig. Field flushing tank. The Waring System of Irrigation.—Irrigation on a small scale, knownin this country as the Waring system, is resorted to ver^- commonlyfor the treatment of se^vage of single houses and small begun by the Rev. Mr. Moule, the inventor of the earth-closet, itwas a scheme for the disposal of the liquid wastes which could not becared for by earth-closets. The plant consisted of an open-jointed tiledrain laid a little below the surface of the ground, parallel with andclose to a row of grapevines. It was next enlarged by Mr. R. Fieldby the addition of a reservoir or flushing tank, shown in Fig. 94, bymeans of which the whole drain could be flooded throughout and inter-mittently. Brought to the notice of Colonel AVaring, he adopted thesystem for his own house, and proceeded to improve it in several direc-tions and to bring it into common use. Under him, the system wasbrought to its present state of perfection. The plant consists of a reservoir into which t
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