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20 new Pedestal W.Gs. have replaced these of the "Pan and
Container" form during the past year
With a view to a lessening of the danger of such waterborne
diseases as typhoid fever and cholera, I would suggest
that every W.C. within the district should be furnished with a
cistern of adequate capacity for the purpose of flushing.
Also that such cistern should be separate and district from
any cistern liable to be used or likely to be used for drinking
or domestic purposes. The great danger of supplying a water-
closet direct from a water main instead of through the Inter-
vention of a cistern has been shewn by numerous outbreaks of
enteric (typhoid) fever which have resulted from the adoption
of the former practise, a method of supply which during
tional or unavoidable Intermissions in the water-service
facilitates and ensures the forcible suction of foul air and,
at times, other matters into the mains of the water-service.
Hence the provision of service-eisterns for water-closets
should be insisted en, so as to ensure a complete break
between the interior of the closet basin and the water-main;
but even when such a cistern id provided, there still remains
a tendency for the escape of foul air from the basin of the
closet up the service-pipe and through the body of water in
the cistern itself, thus leading to contamination of the water.
It is, therefore, further important that water-closet cisterns