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pipes, provide that no overflow or waste pipe, other than a
warning pipe, shall be attached to any cistern supplied with
water by a company.
Sewer Oases.
Continued watchful care is required to prevent the
ingress of foul air, the product of sewer putrefaction, permeating
into dwellings. Houses are constantly found which
communicate with drains by waste pipes, soil pipes constructed
within the house, cesspools, drains, and, at times,
overflow pipes, sink pipes, bath pipes, and lavatory basin
pipes, and although supposed to be secured by traps, fail to
keep out poisonous gases laden with the germs of infection.
A great deal of trouble has been taken to get these
dangers prevented in the construction of new houses in the
district, but constant supervision is requisite.
No soil pipe should be constructed within a house, and
should always be ventilated, and no house should, by means
of drains, in any way communicate with a sewer, but should
have its connection broken between the house and drain traps
and terminate by a free end into the open air outside the
house.
Cow Houses and Dairies.
As milk often constitutes the sole diet of infants and
invalids, it becomes of the most serious importance that this
nutritious food should be of a pure quality.
The surroundings of cow-houses and dairies should be
kept scrupulously clean, and in the event of any case of sickness
amongst the cows, the animal should be kept separate
from others, and the milk from the diseased animal thrown
away.