This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...Although they should, if possible, be removed from such situations, they can be made perfectly sweet in a very simple way, and that is done by making a hole in the container, attaching a small ventilating pipe to it, which pipe is taken through the wall of the house and made to end in some convenient situation ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...Although they should, if possible, be removed from such situations, they can be made perfectly sweet in a very simple way, and that is done by making a hole in the container, attaching a small ventilating pipe to it, which pipe is taken through the wall of the house and made to end in some convenient situation, and then you never get any foul air accumulating under pressure, to rush out when the pan is moved and the water in it let fall into the container. The valve closet is a great improvement upon this, inasmuch as the container is merely a small box in which the valve works, whereas the volume of water used is much greater. Those are the chief points about this rather complicated apparatus, which is evidently not fit for the use of careless persons. Now for the kind of apparatus fit to be employed when large numbers of persons use the same place. There has been an apparatus contrived called "The Trough Water Closet." I spoke to you before about "Trough Latrines.55 They are not water closets; they are constructed in very much the same way9 but in the "Trough Latrines," the excreta are collected for the day, and then are emptied into a cart and taken away. That is a modification of the "Pail System." The "trough water closet" may be briefly described thus. Underneath the row of seats there is a trough made of iron or slate, or any convenient material of the sort. This trough at its lower end has a connection with a sewer, the mouth of which is fitted with a plug; which plug can be moved up and down by a lifting apparatus in a separate compartment, which can only be got at by the person who has charge of the place; because, of course, among large bodies of men, there must always be a man appointed to...
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