Sanitary Work in the Smaller Towns and in VillagesLockwood, 1884 - 254 pages |
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atmosphere average blue lias bottom bricks brickwork carbonic acid carried cause cement cent cesspit chalk channel clay clean conduit covered cubic feet diameter discharged drainage drains and sewers experiments Eytelwein's fæces fall feet per minute floor foul air gallons gases gauge gravel ground hard water height hole house drain hydraulic lime hydraulic mean depth inches joints Knockholt laid length less lime liquid London clay material mean velocity millstone grit necessary nuisance organic matter outfall owner pass Portland cement prevent privy proper pump purposes quantity of water rain-water rainfall reservoirs road rural sanitary districts sand sanitary authority sectional area sewage sewer gas sides slaughter-house socket soil pipe solid matter square stone stoneware stream sub-irrigation sufficient supply of water surface tank thickness towns trap trench Value Coeff ventilating pipe vertical walls water supply water-closets weir width yard
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Page 67 - On the representation of any person to any local authority that within their district the water in any well tank or cistern, public or private, or supplied from any public pump, and used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drinks for the use of man, is so polluted as to be injurious to health, such authority may apply to a court of summary jurisdiction for an order to remedy the same; and thereupon such court shall summon the owner or occupier of the...
Page 177 - ... the local authority shall, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of the house, within a reasonable time therein specified, to provide a sufficient watercloset earthcloset or privy and an ashpit furnished as aforesaid, or either of them, as the case may require.
Page 35 - ... thinking these small differences can in no way affect us. A little more or less oxygen might not affect us, but supposing its place occupied by hurtful matter, we must not look on the amount as too small. Subtracting 0'980 from U'999, we have a difference of 190 in a million.
Page 239 - ... district with a supply of water in cases where danger arises to the health of the inhabitants from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply of water and a proper supply can be got at a reasonable cost...
Page 40 - ... to give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such house or part thereof requiring him to cleanse and disinfect such house or part thereof and articles within a time specified in such notice.
Page 174 - Every sanitary authority shall keep in repair all sewers belonging to them, and shall cause to be made such sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district for the purposes 4,0 of this Act.
Page 32 - If such notice is not complied with, the local authority may, at the expiration of the time specified in the notice, do the work thereby required to be done...
Page 160 - Mixed with this, there is the water from kitchens, containing vegetable, animal, and other refuse, and that from wash-houses, containing soap and the animal matters from soiled linen. There is also the drainage from stables and cow-houses, and that from...
Page 97 - These inferences must be put along with the other fact, that artificial removal of subsoil-water, alone, of various sanitary works, has largely decreased consumption. From which follows the general inference, that WETNESS OF SOIL is A GREAT CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION...
Page 40 - Health, or of any two medical practitioners, it appears to any local authority that any house, or part thereof, is in such a filthy or unwholesome condition that the health of any person is affected or endangered thereby, or that the whitewashing, cleansing, or purifying of any house, or part thereof, would tend to prevent or check infectious...