House Drainage and Water Service in Cities, Villages, and Rural Neighborhoods: With Incidental Consideration of Causes Affecting the Healthfulness of Dwellings, Volum 25D. Williams, 1878 - 360 sider |
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House Drainage and Water Service in Cities, Villages, and Rural ..., Volum 25 James Copper Bayles Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1878 |
House Drainage and Water Service in Cities, Villages and Rural Neighborhoods ... J. C. Bayles Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1880 |
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Side 87 - ... carts, these fetid streams of subterranean slime which the pavement hides from you, do you know what all this is ? It is the flowering meadow, it is the green grass, it is marjoram and thyme and sage, it is game, it is cattle, it is the satisfied low of...
Side 260 - Blest power of sunshine ! genial day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb...
Side 330 - ... to wait. Two of them will sometimes wait nearly half a day while a comrade goes for a tool. They are patient and philosophical. It is a great pleasure to meet such men. One only wishes there was some work he could do for them by the .hour. There ought to be reciprocity. I think they have very nearly solved the problem of Life : it is to work for other people, never for yourself, and get your pay by the hour. You then have no anxiety, and little work. If you do things by the job, you are perpetually...
Side 322 - Aerial disinfection, as commonly practised in the sick-room, is either useless or positively objectionable, owing to the false sense of security it is calculated to produce. To make the air of a room smell strongly of carbolic acid by scattering carbolic powder about the floor, or of chlorine, ,by placing a tray of chloride of lime in a corner, is, so far as the destruction of specific contagia is concerned, an utterly futile proceeding.
Side 329 - In the driest days, my fountain became disabled : the pipe was stopped up. A couple of plumbers, with the implements of their craft, came out to view the situation. There was a good deal of difference of opinion about where the stoppage was. I found the plumbers perfectly willing to sit down and talk about...
Side 38 - It may be said that, as Croydon was sewered on the small-pipe system, the result of non-ventilation was attended with more marked results than is the case in towns where sewers of larger size are in vogue, as the...
Side 271 - ... thrown down it, and it very greatly reduces the quantity of water required by each household.
Side 271 - The earth-closet, intelligently managed, furnishes a means of disposing of excrement without nuisance and apparently without detriment to health. " (2.) In communities the earth-closet system requires to be managed by the authority of the place, and will pay at least the expenses of its management. " (3.) In the poorer classes of houses, where supervision of any closet arrangements is indispensable, the adoption of the earth system offers special advantages.
Side 87 - Pole the droppings of petrels and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth which we have under our hand we send to the sea. All the human and animal manure which the world loses, restored to the land instead of being thrown into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. " These heaps of garbage at the corners of the stone blocks ; these tumbrils of mire jolting through the streets at night ; these horrid scavengers...
Side 329 - ... would await his return with the most exemplary patience, and sit down and talk, — always by the hour. I do not know but it is a habit to have something wanted at the shop. They seemed to me very good workmen, and always willing to stop and talk about the job, or anything else, when I went near them. Nor had they any of that impetuous hurry that is said to be the bane of our American civilization.