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operation, be served only through a cistern or service-bos, and without, a
stool-cock, and there shall be no direct communication from the pipes of
the Company to any boiler, urinal, or watercloset.
No pipe by which water is' supplied by the Company to any
watercloset shall communicate with any part of such watercloset, or with any
apparatus connected therewith, except the service-cistern thereof.
As the question of drinking pure water and the prevention of sewer
gases, from passing either into the water receptacles or houses, is perhaps
the most important that can engage the attention of the public, I shall
conclude this report with the following observations:—
1.—All cisterns which are used for holding water for drinking and
cooking purposes should be so placed, as to be of easy access for the purpose
of cleansing them. This process should be performed once at least
in every six weeks.
2.—Where there is a cistern for holding water for drinking purposes,
another cistern should be used for the supply of the closet. The danger
of drinking water from a cistern which supplies a water-closet is so great,
that the same should be carefully avoided.
3.— If a wash-hand-basin be fixed in the closet, the out-flow pipe
should be trapped if the same should empty itself into the soil pipe, and
water should always be kept in the wash-hand-basin, so as to form another
trap, whereby the foul air from the soil pipe may be prevented from
entering the closet and from thence into the house.
I am,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.