SEWAGE DISPOSAL ON THE FARM,

AND

THE PROTECTION OF DRINKING WATER.

THEOBALD SMITH, M. D.,

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

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1896.

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

Fig.

1. Shallow barnyard well

2. Portable earth closet

3. Old form of earth closet

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