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Soction 39. Water-Closets to be sufficiently supplied
with water;
Section 50. The cleansing of cisterns.
Your Sanitary Authority has made such bye-laws, which have
received the approval of the Local Government Board.
DRAINAGE
I am pleased to be able to report that as plana of
construction proceed the complicated and dangerous form of
closet known as the "pan" is gradually disappearing. It is
being replaced by the more cleanly and modern "pedestal" with
siphon trap in lieu of D trap and "container.*
The chief disadvantages of the "pan" form of closet are,
that there is always a collection of foul water in the D trap;
foul air collects in the iron box or container and escapes
into the house when the handle is pulled and the contents of
the pan discharge; and the Interior of the container, too,
gets foul from the splashings on the sides.
All cash closets should, in my opinion, bo removed as
speedily as possible.
From a perusal of the list compiled by year Sanitary
Inspector, and given in the Appendix, it will be seen that