Practical sanitation; a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others;with apxon Sanitary law, by Herbert Manley . 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, unit
Practical sanitation; a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others;with apxon Sanitary law, by Herbert Manley . 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. marvel that no such investigation was made, and the probabilityis that had it taken place, little good would have mistakes are often made in the drainage of houses bypersons who possess only a superficial knowledge of the subject,and who, without understanding the principles, endeavour toimprove upon the established practice as laid down by ablesanitary engineers. The above sketch (Fig. 86) is descriptiveof what was met with in a house recently built, according to theplans, and under the superintendence, of an architect. As isusual in such cases, it was supposed by the owner of the housethat, being a modern building, all the sanitary arrangementsmust necessarily be perfect, and on the occurrence of diphtheriain the house, the suggestion that the drainage might be at fault Plumbers Work. 135 was ridiculed by him. The following among other faults werefound :—Immediately under one of the windows the closet-pipe, B, together with an untrapped lavatory waste, A, dis-charge
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