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WATER-CISTERNS should be carefully covered, to
exclude dirt, and cleansed once a month.
The waste-pipe, if connected with the drain or soil-pipe,
should be disconnected, and converted into an overflow
or warnirig-pipe; otherwise the water may become polluted
by foul air, to the danger of health and life.
WATER CLOSETS should have an independent water
supply, either by a separate cistern or a service-box. The
soil-pipe, whenever practicable, should be carried up to the
roof, full size, for the purpose of ventilation.
BATE AND SINK WASTES. Waste-pipes should
be disconnected from the drain, and when practicable
carried through the outer wall, and made to discharge on
a trapped stoneware gully in the open air.
RAIN-WATER-PIPES should be disconnected from the
drain, and made to discharge on a trapped stoneware gully.
HOUSE-DRAINS should be ventilated by a fourinch
pipe, carried from the highest part of the drain to the
roof. The joints of the pipe must be carefully stopped,
and the open end of the pipe should not be near a
window or chimney.
Impure air and polluted water being fertile sources of
illness, especially of diarrhoea, so fatal to young children
in hot weather, and of communicable diseases like typhoid
fever, the importance of attending to the above recommendations
must be obvious.
By order of the Vestry,
T. ORME DUDFIELD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Offices of the Sanitary Department,
Town Hall,
Kensington High Street, W.
July, 1883.