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Page 95 - They exclude the soil pipe atmosphere to such an extent that what escapes through the water is so little in amount, and so purified by filtration, as to be perfectly harmless...
Page 45 - that the deaths which occur in this country are fully a third more numerous than they would be if our existing knowledge of the chief causes of disease were reasonably well applied throughout the country...
Page 113 - ... forced back into the houses. But the occurrence of this complication of circumstances is certain to be rare. Whatever rises from the sewer under these circumstances is offensive and irritating. A number of ailments, inclusive, perhaps, of sore throats, may originate from these causes. But no specific diseases will be generated by them except in the rarest of conditions. For specific germs are destroyed by the process of putrefaction in the sewers, and the worse the odor the less is the danger,...
Page 46 - ... each unit represents a larger or smaller group of other cases in which preventable disease, not ending in death, though often of far-reaching ill effects on life, has been suffered.
Page 690 - The waste pipe of every wash stand for vehicles shall be provided with a sand box of sufficient capacity. The waste pipe from the sink of every hotel, eating house, restaurant or other public cooking establishment, shall be connected to a grease trap of sufficient size, easily accessible to open and clean, placed as near as practicable to the fixture that it serves. Roof Leaders and Surface Drains.
Page 85 - This predisposition is due to the combination of gases given out by putrid fermentations, and not to any one separately ; 3. It is probable that this experimental predisposition is diminished by prolonged breathing of the said gases. These conclusions then serve to confirm what some authors had epidemiologically foreseen, and social hygiene had practically and painfully confirmed.
Page 107 - And from the results obtained from the two series of experiments, viz., in filtering air and in filtering water, we can now draw one very important practical conclusion, which cannot be too strongly emphasized : That a house may be built on a thoroughly dry body of sand or gravel, and its cellar may be far above the level of the ground water...
Page 107 - ... at all times, and it may yet be in danger of having the air of its rooms contaminated by the germs from leaching cess-pools and vaults; for, if the drift of the leaching be toward the cellar, very wet seasons may extend the polluted moisture to the cellar walls, whence, after evaporation, the germ will pass into the atmospheric circulation of the house.
Page 690 - ... the building. Changes in direction shall be made with curved pipes, and all connections with horizontal or vertical pipes shall be made with Y -branches.
Page 54 - ... the bacilli and spirilla are motile, whilst the micrococci, yeasts, and moulds are stationary, as are also many of the bacilli themselves. The movements executed by the motile bacilli and spirilla form one of the most fascinating and entertaining microscopic spectacles which exist. The rapid motion of the countless swarms of individuals following their sinuous paths across the field of the microscope in all directions and in the three dimensions of space, much after the fashion of a cloud of...