By WM. PAUL GERHARD, Civil Engineer. Consulting Engineer For Sanitary Works.

One 12mo volume, cloth, 302 pages, with 282 illustrations,

Price, $2.50

SOIL, WASTE AND AIR-PIPE SYSTEM OF A COUNTRY DWELLING.

Contents

CHAPTER I (General Principles). - Fresh Air versus Sewer Gas.

II. - Necessity of Ventilation in Rooms containing "Modern Conven-iences," and Defective Arrangements of Plumbing Fixtures.

III. -Soil and Waste-Pipe System as usually found in Dwellings. " IV. - Traps and Systems of Trapping.

" V. - Details of Traps.

" VI. - Insecurity of Common Water Seal Traps.

" VII. - Defects in the Plumbing Work of Dwellings.

" VIII. - Cellar Drains and Drainage of Cellars.

IX. - Usual Defects of House Drains, Sewer Connections, Privies, Vaults and Cesspools. X. - System of Plumbing as it should be Inside a Dwelling. " XL - Plumbing Fixtures.

" XII. - Removal and Disposal of Household Wastes.

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