Cesspools in a house do not fulfill this condition of immediate removal.
Cesspools are inadmissible where complete removal can be effected.
Twenty of these cesspools were removed from the upper ward, and twenty-eight from the middle and lower wards.
With smaller apparatus they may be discharged into cesspools if sufficiently diluted.
Mr Collins mentions a very alarming and unsuspected source of aerial poisoning in many town-houses to be the existence of old disusedcesspools in the centre of the buildings.
It does not seem that it was positively ascertained that none of these small cesspools had been used by a typhoid-fever patient, or that typhoid stools had not found their way into them in some other way.
Cesspools are not to be countenanced by people of intelligence.
Organic matter may come from peat swamps, decaying leaves and grasses; or it may come from decayed animal matter which finds its way into the soil; or worst of all it may come from cesspools or other sewage.
Cesspools are not as good as septic tanks because there is not the surety of sewage being oxidized in them, as there is in the septic tank.
Sewer pipes for private water systems usually drain into cesspoolsor septic tanks (Figs.
Do not wash vegetables with much earth adhering to them in sinks leading to cesspools or septic tanks.
Drain basins and cesspools are often resorted to, and these may become additional sources of contamination.
How may connections between cesspools and surface well waters be traced?
Where there is no public supply of water, it is better in most cases (considering the nearness of wells in villages to cesspools and privy-vaults), to depend entirely upon cisterns.
All old vaults and cesspools should be filled with earth, and disinfected by the admixture of lime with the upper layers of the filling.
It is to Bondy that the contents of cesspools are conveyed.
Fifi ----, large iron cylinder in which the contents of cesspools are carried away by the scavengers.
And, Sirs, upon the second count of this indictment: Would you have a lanthorn dive intocesspools to rescue maidens?
Where there is no system of drainage, cesspoolsmust at times be used, but they should be avoided as much as possible.
In some old houses cesspools have been found actually under the living rooms.
Filthy liquids accumulating in cesspools and leaking under pressure to our wells have cost us health and money incalculable.
Explosions in cesspools and sewers have occurred many times.
Of all the abominations which disgrace and pollute the dwellings of the poor, the imperfect, rarely emptied, and overflowing cesspools are by far the worst .
It was thought by many persons of influence to be better to live in the midst of overflowing cesspools than to add to the defilement of the Thames.
I am thoroughly convinced by the result of experience, that the existence of cesspools and overcrowding are the chief causes of ill-health.
Some were higher than the cesspools which they were supposed to drain, whilst others had been so constructed that to be of any use the sewage would have had to flow uphill!
Mention has been made of the vast number of cesspools which existed in London before the passing of the Metropolis Local Management Act.
A fair amount of drainage work was also carried out--thousands of cesspools were filled in and drains made.
Of Clerkenwell it was indeed stated positively that "the shallow-well water of the parish received the drainage water of Highgate cemetery, of numerous burial grounds, and of the innumerable cesspools in the district.
I have also seen in such places human beings living and sleeping in sunk rooms with filth from overflowing cesspoolsexuding through and running down the walls and over the floors.
It cannot, for instance, jump out ofcesspools and drains and take to flight through the air, conveying the disease.
They are born in filth and they delight in living in filth, and if privies and cesspools and manure piles and garbage piles could be shut out from flies, the fly pestilence would be at an end.
It is possible that air from cesspools and broken drains in the vicinity of a house may, in this same way, contribute to the atmosphere breathed within the walls of the house.
Finally, the location on a sidehill, even when otherwise advantageous, is to be regarded with suspicion if the subsoil strata are horizontal and neighbors up the slope have cesspools in use.
While rules for taking proper care of these cesspools are plenty, enforcement of them is so neglected that some of them have not been cleaned in five years.
The clearing out and filling with clean earth of all the cesspools and garbage-vaults, and the supplying to each house of a suitable water-closet connected with the public sewer system.
The vent to open cesspoolsshould be thoroughly screened or the surface of the water kept well covered with oil.
Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to.
The city, they found, was honeycombed with cesspools and privy-vaults.
Many of the cesspools and privy-vaults were under or in the cellars of houses, where they had been filled with accumulations and abandoned to fester and rot.
Cesspools were therefore connected to sewers by house drains.
The difficulty and expense of emptying the cesspools were increased.
Excreta were collected in cesspools often built beneath the floor of the house.
Now, did Mr. Smith really take such a heart-interest in cesspools and wet-traps as he appeared to do?
There are multitudes in heaven that have crept and crawled out of the quagmires of filth and the cesspools of iniquity and drunkenness.
O God, save us all from the cesspools of hell and corruption.
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