The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-04

:. precisely the ground oocu
nis i Professor Doremus IN th'
u Tose WILL THE BEST PLUMBING
~ DONN LAST?
. third article in the same Jour.
il . , sIi Home Sanitation" BY
sn' EoiIins. F. R. I. B. a. T. 1
D. liter liter says: lone hint more
IT'D req worth all the rest; do not Inn
]ogln tS.t when structure, Drainage.
giBe 'nn nnlv and the various appli.
Fliei entertaining thereto are lett IN
ices S .ydp"1ifiOn that they aOliL Gt'cQys
G'ssl 20 and that. unlike every
,sr'aH . 3D. they will last IN
oiDsI; p,Jif FIR ever, or even that period
s me ever, few years. y
o. ~ conclusion must We draw
VILE ,5is except that plumbing, IL
TON ' ~ ne aafe, must be renewed
oiasI ,1 n every few years? What
iSi9us Numbers and sanitary engi-
DO In1 ..g to this? The was the posi-
neel; Zen s[s By myself in my paper
ii0n G 1ah Waring, in his cOmmu-
Oo' Go,9 10 the Herald and EUentng
p 3gg and Mr.. Wingsts and DR.. Bill
l.'.' nave gaid it could be made per-
lns .. safe. Do they mean to say
IsCG t3'ctIv safe as long as the house
sl T last: and if they do not, for bow
;la- a time can it be made safei
T -TDs vbo build house and those who
1!s w in houses have a deep interest
ID II .I' + can be made perfectly safe
anv length of time why Is It not
S J.. Mr.. Burton in the paragraph
.Dos saws practically that in Lon
goD not one per cent. Of the houses
". W. entirely free from sewer gas, and
,15,ssttbrough DO fault OF the plumbers.
And Colonel Waring says [ Herald.
lrTI 12h):- "Few. l imagine
-onId question the substantial sound
ro.. of DIR. Hamilton's position on
ne ouestion OF heating, lighting and
renfstion, and no one probably al
al familiar with the subject will ques-
i'm What be says about the effect oil
Stumbling work OF city houses on the
fEls and health of their occupants
FINN tenement house to palace they
are very often, almost universally,
and disgracefully and dangerously
had" at is quite true
t6st such plumbing work as ii
IN be found today in nine out Of
syery ten houses. even in Fifth ave.
nue., is unsafe, and ought not to be
allowed to remain within the same
four walls with a family OF human
hainps" \. There is no doubI
that the wide distribution of plumb
ing appliances throughout the whole
house, has led to a great increase o.
risk, and to a wide dissemination Of
dangerous defects.
Practically these two gentlemen
have condemning almost the entire
plumbing of London and New York
Where then will Colonel Waring, Of
Mr.. Wingate, or DR.. Billings all o
whom say it can be, supply al
With the preOf that it has been snC
can be made asfe for anv considerable
length of time? What reasons have
me to suppose that il a "Wide distribu
ion" cannot be safe, 8 more limited
distribution can be?
Colonel Warning intimates that
Im not q professional ssnitsrian,
OIL would nothave differed with hin
UPON the praoticability of excluding
poisonous gases frem our houses uu
der the modern system Of plumbing
snd upen certain other points; an
warns the people through both th
Herald and the Mail and Express, t
take no steps backward In the esser
.isl improvement of the sdjuncts {
our daily life.
Let me remind Colonel Warm
that all medical men are, oy Virtu
Of their calling, professional SAM
tarians." They are not indeed 'san
Esry engineers" and there are man
things which this class Of specialist
can teach Us; but there are quite
many things, perhaps, which meGics
men can teach them. We Woul
gladly get information fron CelonC
Wsring and other sanitary engineer
or from plumbers, how the pipes Ca
be connected with Cur dIellin
houses, and poisonous germs b
eHsctuslly excluded-for medical me
believe that both sewer gases and th
germs they hold and fructiiy are dar
gerous to health. We undersIan
tully that these gentlemen feclsre
can be done; and they have, Nhel
asked, each in his own way, describe
thsir peculiar methods; but as v
understand them, it has not bee
done yet, unless it be for sho
periods of time, in London or Ne
York; and it is moi unreasonable
therefore, that We should RENAL
scsptical until some evidence is III
nished of the correctness OF their Al
asItiOns.
WOULD IT BE BETTER, OR is IT PRACTI
ABLE TO PLACE ALL OUR PLUMBIl
n IBIS CLIMATE IN AN EXTENSION?
Professor Willard Parker said
the Academy at the close OF the oil
cussion, 81 think this is a subject
the greatest importance, and Of
which it is our duty to be interesst
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