House drainage and water service in cities, villages, and rural neighborhoodsD. Williams, 1878 - 360 Seiten |
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Seite 330 - There ought to be reciprocity. I think they have very nearly solved the problem of Life: it is to work for other people, never for yourself, and get your pay by the hour. You then have no anxiety, and little work. If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not. Working by the hour tends to make one moral. A plumber...
Seite 260 - Blest power of sunshine ! genial day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb...
Seite 87 - ... carts, these fetid streams of subterranean slime which the pavement hides from you, do you know what all this is? It is the flowering meadow, it is the green grass, it is marjoram and thyme and sage, it is game, it is cattle, it is the satisfied low of huge oxen at evening, it is perfumed hay, it is golden corn, it is bread on your table, it is warm blood in your veins, it is health, it is joy, it is life.
Seite 322 - Aerial disinfection, as commonly practised in the sick-room, is either useless or positively objectionable, owing to the false sense of security it is calculated to produce. To make the air of a room smell strongly of carbolic acid by scattering carbolic powder about the floor, or of chlorine, ,by placing a tray of chloride of lime in a corner, is, so far as the destruction of specific contagia is concerned, an utterly futile proceeding.
Seite 329 - In the driest days, my fountain became disabled : the pipe was stopped up. A couple of plumbers, with the implements of their craft, came out to view the situation. There was a good deal of difference of opinion about where the stoppage was. I found the plumbers perfectly willing to sit down and talk about...
Seite 326 - ... word) the filth of any neglected district, to follow the body and branchings of the filth with really effective chemical treatment, to thoroughly destroy or counteract it in muck-heaps and cesspools, and ashpits, and sewers, and drains, and where soaking into wells, and where exhaling into houses, cannot, I apprehend, be proposed as physically possible ; and the utmost which disinfection can do in this sense is apparently not likely to be more than in a certain class of cases (see § 39) to contribute...
Seite 271 - ... thrown down it, and it very greatly reduces the quantity of water required by each household.
Seite 271 - The earth-closet, intelligently managed, furnishes a means of disposing of excrement without nuisance and apparently without detriment to health. " (2.) In communities the earth-closet system requires to be managed by the authority of the place, and will pay at least the expenses of its management. " (3.) In the poorer classes of houses, where supervision of any closet arrangements is indispensable, the adoption of the earth system offers special advantages.
Seite 87 - We fit out convoys of ships, at great expense, to gather up at the south pole the droppings of petrels and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth which we have under our own hand, we send to the sea.
Seite 272 - ... quantity of water required by each household. " 7. As regards the application of excrement to the land, the advantages of the earth system are these : — The whole agricultural value of the excrement is retained ; the resulting manure is in a state in which it can be kept, carried about, and applied to crops with facility ; there is no need for restricting its use to any particular area, nor for using it at times when, agriculturally, it is worthless, and it can be applied with advantage to...