Sewage Disposal on the Farm, and Protection of Drinking Water

by Theobald Smith

SEWAGE DISPOSAL ON THE FARM,

AND

THE PROTECTION OF DRINKING WATER.

BY

THEOBALD SMITH, M. D.,

Professor in Harvard University,
Pathologist to the Massachusetts State Board of Health, etc.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1896.

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[CONTENTS.]

	Page.
Introduction	[3]
Disposal of sewage	[5]
Night soil	[7]
The privy	[7]
The cesspool	[7]
The dry-earth closet	[8]
The water-closet	[11]
Liquid sewage	[11]
Vaults	[11]
Irrigation	[12]
Kitchen and chamber slops	[14]
Waste and garbage	[15]
Protection of drinking water	[16]
Ways of contamination	[17]
Construction of wells	[18]
Conclusion	[19]

[ILLUSTRATIONS.]

Fig.	1. Shallow barnyard well	[6]
	2. Portable earth closet	[8]
	3. Old form of earth closet	[9]
	4. Earth closet and dry catch	[10]
	5. Self-acting peat dust closet	[11]
	6. Settling chamber and flush tank for irrigation	[12]
	7. Subsurface irrigation of sewage	[13]
	8. Garbage cremator	[16]

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