 ... freely when needed. Where many are using the closet, a vault may be dug beneath the seat, and. made water-tight with brick and cement. Into this should be thrown each day a sufficient quantity of this dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly...  Report - Page 165by Maine. State Board of Health - 1890Full view - About this book
 | New Hampshire. Dept. of Agriculture - 1886 - 498 pages
...dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused...the cases of typhoid fever. As the country becomes more thickly settled, the dangers from the privy-vault increase, and they should be wholly abandoned.... | |
 | Victor Clarence Vaughan - 1886 - 78 pages
...dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused...the cases of typhoid fever. As the country becomes more thickly settled, the dangers from the privy-vault increase, and they should be wholly abandoned.... | |
 | New Hampshire. Dept. of Agriculture - 1886 - 498 pages
...dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused...the cases of typhoid fever. As the country becomes more thickly settled, the dangers from the privy-vault increase, and they should be wholly abandoned.... | |
 | American Public Health Association - 1886 - 222 pages
...dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused...the cases of typhoid fever. As the country becomes more thickly settled, the dangers from the privy-vault increase, and they should be wholly abandoned.... | |
 | American Public Health Association - 1886 - 248 pages
...dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused...and famine have produced. The liquid poisons from it f1lter into wells, while its gaseous exhalations float through the air. People breathe and drink their... | |
 | West Virginia. Department of Health - 1888 - 156 pages
...earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault, with porous walls, is an abomination. It has caused...the cases of typhoid fever. As the country becomes more thickly settled the dangers from the privy vault increase, and they should be wholly abandoned.... | |
 | 1888 - 340 pages
...dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused...country than war and famine have produced. The liquid poison from it filters into wells, while its gaseous exhalations float throngh the air. People breathe... | |
 | New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1888 - 340 pages
...dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused...country than war and famine have produced. The liquid poison from it filters into wells, while its gaseous exhalations float through the air. People breathe... | |
 | 1890 - 676 pages
...dug beneath the seat, and made water-tight with brick and cement. Into this should be thrown «ach day a sufficient quantity of this dry earth, and the...the cases of typhoid fever. As the country becomes more thickly settled, the dangers from the privyvault increase, and they should be wholly abandoned.... | |
 | Maine. State Board of Health - 1890 - 338 pages
...cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It Las caused more deaths in this country than war and famine...privy-vault is the origin of the majority of the cases of tj'phoid fever. As the country becomes more thickly settled, the dangers from the privyvault increase,... | |
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