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substitute the modern pipe. Some members of the
family would find their health benefited, for few persons
have any conception of the number of anomalous
disorders of the health connected with sewer emanations.
Typhoid fever is propagated by the inhalation
of infectious gases, these may conic from the cxcreta
of fever patients allowed to remain too long in unemptied
vessels, or these cxcreta may loiter in drains
under and around a house, and emanating from them
may arise under kitchen floors, or other parts of the
basement, go up staircases, and enter bedrooms. The
origin of many cases of typhoid fever have been thus
traced.