[5]. Cosgrove, History of Sanitation.

[6]. Sedgwick: Sanitary Science and Public Health.

[7]. No detrimental effect on the public health was noted as a result of this condition however. It has never been conclusively proven that such nuisances are detrimental to the public health.

[8]. Moore and Silcock, Sanitary Engineering, p. 67, 1909.

[9]. Similar to the definition proposed by the Am. Public Health Assn.

[10]. Definition recommended by Am. Public Health Assn.

[11]. Ibid.

[12]. Ibid.

[13]. Eng. News, Vol. 76, 1916, p. 781. See also Eng. News-Record, Vol. 85, 1920, pp. 22, 1175.

[14]. For a more extensive treatment of the subject see Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration by W. B. Munro, 1916.