. Annual report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. quare, underthe rear of the house, directly beneath the kitchen. Thedrainage from the sink of said kitchen passed into an open,V-shaped wooden trough, and was thence conveyed across 1874.] STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 299 the cellar to the opening of a pipe three or four inches indiameter, not trapped, which conducts presumably to the•street sewer. At the junction of the trough with this pipethe connection was so loose that the greater portion of theslops emptied directly upon the cellar floor, which was ofboards laid upon the ground. A
. Annual report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. quare, underthe rear of the house, directly beneath the kitchen. Thedrainage from the sink of said kitchen passed into an open,V-shaped wooden trough, and was thence conveyed across 1874.] STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 299 the cellar to the opening of a pipe three or four inches indiameter, not trapped, which conducts presumably to the•street sewer. At the junction of the trough with this pipethe connection was so loose that the greater portion of theslops emptied directly upon the cellar floor, which was ofboards laid upon the ground. A foul, strong and constantstench pervaded the cellar, which had no connection with theouter world other than by means of the stairway and doorthrough the kitchen. It was stated that this patient was inthe habit of rising early (4 to 5 a. m.), making a rousingfire in the kitchen, and there reading his paper, etc., till hewent to his work. To make clear the description abovegiven, a diagram of these premises is subjoined. Section of Kitchen amd Cellar Case IX. Case X. A child, Pratts Block, off Second Street.—Thisis in a row of wooden houses, of a mean class, in dilapidatedcondition, without cellars, and having their ground floor fourfeet below the level of the street; living-rooms on groundfloor, comprising kitchen and sleeping-room, of eight-feetstud, dark and ill-ventilated; sink foul, its contents empty-ing directly upon the ground, A marsh comes up to withina few rods of the house. Yard uncleanly; the whole placeredolent of bad smells. Case XI. A child, Auburn Street.—House old, dilapidated;basement-cellar flooded at times, and always foul and damp;no drainage. Twenty feet from house is a large pond ofgreenish water, into which flows the refuse from the ChelseaLaundry. A great mortality of children from cholera-infan- 300 STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. [Jan. turn and like diseases is reported in this locality in the hotmonths. I have given on a previous page the report of Dr. W
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