The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

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HOUSE DRAINAGE

(From the Liverpool Health of Towns' Advocate.)

POETRY.

There is, properly speaking, no house !drainage in Li-
verpool ; but we have a law instead, which, as we formerly
showed, inflicts a penalty of £lO on any one who shall be
guilty of allowing any house soil to pass into a main sewer.
This law must of course be repealed ; and we trust that
the day is not far distant when every cottage in the town
shall have it, separate drain. The very first principle in
house drainage is to avoid the use of the square box drain.
It is one of the worst contrived and most mischievous
forms that could be adopted. All competent authorities
denounce such conduits as being little better than cess-
pools, and where they are carried into the kitchen floor,
they may at any moment introduce fever or bowel h&c-

MORNING

'Written for the Liverpool Standard.)

Great potentate of day ! bright Plicebus comes
Rejoicing from the solitudes of night;
'With gold and purple diadem, cloud-wove,
And canopied with light. Dark
'Glows like ambition's -
Of raajest;. Ope wide
Arid let his glory

.n's wave

ath the smile

ant of being

ea, and sky

Of light, and joy, and beauty
Of earth's terraqueous frame

vital spark

ethereal source

Fit emblem of
O'er chaos me

tions into the house. They are generally made vastly too
large, and, from the open nature of the work, there is a
continual escape of gases at the aperture, while there is
also danger arising from the leakage of their contents into
the subsoil, or into wells. This latter accident is far from
uncommon, and is the cause of dysentery and other dis-
eases. Under peculiar circumstances, it may give rise to

ate, stamp'd,

?irit, of our suffering ra
n from ignorance and v

-One chosen mind

ings. pure,

3f sense,

most fatal results, of which n most melancholy example

noontide

And from I

)f potency
n influene

• %.,L4 41, V• • •••• y•-•••• U)), t 1 MN' LIMIIIIIS ago,
when a family of five persons died from poisoning by ar-
senic, which had escaped from a drain into the well.
There is no house drain to be compared for safety to a
small iron or earthenware tube, glazed inside, and per-
fectly tight between the open ends. It is remarkable how

d oh human hearts;
o time. Like thine

And gleam truth's beacon

In show'rs upOr

says in his evidenc

Myriads, 0, day.g

"I know one instance of an iron pipe, three inches in diame.
ter, put into a sewer fifty feet distance from the house, about

sp'ring grass,

. ,
,en years ago, and having a fall of about an inch in ten feet,
ch has never been o bstructed."

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James Simpson, Esq., advocate, of Edinburgh, has pub-
lished a Report of a similar experiment made in his own
house, where an iron pipe, only two inches and a half in
diameter, has received and carried away the whole drain-
)m the cup age of ling back yard, kitchen, baths

ales rejoic

ith a fresh

he house, meth(
osets, &c., without having been once obstructed for
five months, the period which had elapsed since the tube
was laid down. In order to test the comparative merits

water cl

With incense of t

,rd from thy couch !

urinate by its open orifice in the squat

drain outside the

house. When this drain was examined, after one month's
priest of nature's congregation, stand use, it was found that a deposit two inches deep had taken
And offer up thy matin sacrifice. place in it, while.tbe iron tube was perfectly clean.
No Gheber's thine, but unto Him, who broke The report, which is attested by the architect, the sur-
Creation's slumber, and the morn awoke. veyor, and the plumber, concludes as follows:
SAMUEL HUGGINS.
" It is thus demonstrated that a two.aad•a-half inch tube or
pipe is competent for the drainage of your house, even with the
flushing afforded by the ordinary and moderate discharges of

lord of the c, c

Brunswick-road, May Ist, 1816,

e accuinulatia

Our Free Trade Policy Examined with respect to its
real Bearing upon Native Industry, our Colonial Sys-
tem, and the Institutions and ultimate Destinies of the
Nation. By a Liverpool Merchant. London : Whit-
ker and Co. ; Liverpool : Lace and Addison, and W.

drain only, while the new continues perfect!y free from anything
like o►

ruction or d

Now, when we remember that it is usual for such square
Irains to pass under the lower stories of houses, we shall
)e at no loss to account for the sickness that not unfre-
quently breaks out when they become foul ; while the per-
fect action of the tubular sewer proves it to be of great
uments with respect to the sanitary importance.

Grapel.
A pamphlet ju

der the above title

some v

ring upon tt

ustry of tt

e nation of the measures

tiL whici
r. Our

none is at present deba-

Mr. -W..Dyce Guthrie, in his valuable evidence on
house drainage, has given a table of the expense of clay
tubes, in which he shows, that with a diameter of three
inches, they would cost only 6d. a yard. The same length
with a diameter of six inches would cost 9d., and with a
diameter of a foot, Is. 3d. The rapidity with which these
tubes can be laid down would also occasion a great saving
in expence. He suggests a diameter of between three and
six inches for ordinary tenements.. But here, again, we
must have an ample supply of water, otherwise such im-

,sores we have i

to the tendency of free trade
ver concealed. We conceive their
The writer of the pam.
ground, and maintains

to be r,

e us, however

abiv, that t

caleulateclto injure seriously

8, by whom they are most
shall give a few extracts,
n of our readers ; 'and first,
for the consideration of the labour-

emseive
I. We

for the i

we offer t

is cannot be carried out

teat principle of

ho imagine that they, see
p loaf, a boon which is to raise ther

house drainage is to use a small tube, and to trust to keep-
ing it dean by flushing. It is impossible in this way that
any deposit should take place, for it is carried at once into

laity in their social conditiOn

ure; and

successful

in determining the future posi-
3ocial scale. We are told that
does not involve a high or low

ould effectually prevent the passage of foul air
main sewer into the house. Large tubes are al-
except for secondary sewerage, to

price of f

proposed to apply them

price of r

Jaye hac

he drainage o

e town wil

re us to prove the fact. We shall find it,
be a law of nature that men will and must

amount with which life can be
:e tells us so. In every country,
where the means of subsistence are
the price of labour is low. The
, who can subsist upon a
t will unrohnuo that

e minima

native of our

dian possessi

s toil for .wt

who;can subsist upon poitito

Lbour for what will afford
sed this law in our legis-

arrows,

ay to our,

p you wit

the v

ustaining- beings

in our manufac

ion sys

-engine

of wages,

of free trade is st

draw inc

s. A
throw an entir
sunport,

upon the nation for
of forethought of t

late production
et of the fnture.

upon the pros

lad unprofitable to fulfil

.nd retir

;amuse,
as to s

IFS.

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