The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-03
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disease and death. The village council
has proposed to remedy this evil by dig
ging a series of cess pools, and conducting
the refuge into them. One only has been
commenced and this is to be twenty feet
deep and eight or ten feet in diameter,
walled up with brick without cement, NOR
tar or bottom. This one is intended TO re-
ceive the excreta from large hotel privy-
vault, half-dozen smaller vaults, the slops
and drainage of pig-pens and the hotel
barn, and a large livery stable, which,
when collected, is to be allowed to soak
away into the ground. If other pits are
dug. it is intended todrain andsewer from
ten to thirty houses into each.
The Sanitary News can not speak IN
terms severe enough in discouraging such
a scheme. If such a proposition should
be made by an engineer, it would be de-
nounced by every sanitarian in the land.
1t is only extending the already bad con-
dition of affairs, and allowing ground
which may now be in q reasonable state
of purity, to be foully contaminated in or
der to relieve that which may be already
contaminated beyond publication. The
cess-pool system is as emphatically to be
condemned as its twin evil, the privy-vault
system. In a compact clay soil the dan
ger from filtration is no less than in light
grsvelly soil, although the process may be
slower. The top soil, which probably var
les in depth from a few feet 70 fifteen or
twenty feet, offers by this system the most
available channel for sewage. The con-
tents of the vaults will leach down to the
clay subsoil; and then finding an easier
path along the top of the clay, will drift
along with the ground-water until well
is reached, when it will trickle down to
the bottom of the well and surely become
portion of the glistening draught, which
should be life and not death. The people
themselves are not responsible for this
great evil which is forced upon them by
their official representatives, but 1t is the
people who suffer most. 1t is generally,
but falsely, supposed that the earth puri-
fes all foulness entrusted to its care. It is
oxygen which purifes, and ground air is
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mospheric air. Germs of typhoid fever,
dysentery, and other intestinal diseases are
believed not to be destroyed by passage
through ground of water, aud these diseases
are to be feared where contamination of
the water is easy.
Some system should be substituted for
the present condition of affairs at yelling
ton, and The Sanitary News would suggest
the abandonment of all privy vaults imme-
diately, and their thorough disinfection
with strong copperas water; then substi-
tute by general ordinance, dry earth
closets, and establish a collecting system
by which clean empty pals should be left
at each house periodically, and the filled
pals removed to some enterprising farm
er's back land, where he VA be glad to
use their contentsas fertilizer. As to its
practicability, it b only necessary to say
that it is the method employed in New
Orleans. If the cess pool system is adopt
ed and carried forward, the name of this
pleasant village may with propriety be
changed from Wellington to Ellington.