Show b = = Uia precisely the gronnd occu u ia if pre Doremus In the l uby Professor deBlY discussion THE BEST PLUMBING LOltG WILL fl Ii LAST article in the same jour TG iu p 1 third Home Sanitation by il entitled F R I B A F I H CoUins c > fi > JStPr hint aays One more the writer the house and its be dto llbre worth all the rest do not im D2lDfhat when structure drainage 1rc g1 se that nnnly and the various appli GSE ate rupply Innertaming thereto are left in op e ES apes condition that they will always trt M so and tbat unlike ever y iN I they will latt un e ite of besr productIOn that period en r paced forever or even K ever a few years net of f iever conclusion must we draw l1e Wbat this except that plumbing m tb tam safe must be renewed aJ orde r to no What every few years hrooghout k j ar tot and sanitary engi plumbers tic ld do d Tsav to this This was the posi l h r ssy bSn by myself J my paper j es It nn ISKCU II iron Colonel Waring in his commu Co I1 reSTtotheflWelnd Evening Je pioation Bil fl and Mr Wingata and Dr a Sail i it i could be made jfogVhave said per r l pgb iclltly safe Do they mean to say Ij ectly rrectly safe as long aa the house r do not for bow Clast and if they en I time can it be made safe D iopO a > o g who build house and those who J e hoe houses have a deep interest eY lire I in llntbu question t in be made perfectly safe d If it can da L any length I of time why is it not dODe1 Mr Burton In the paragraph done rn Looted practically that in Lon quoted save don not one per cent of the houses b entirely free from sewer gas and are to a r that through no fault of the plumbers And Colonel Waring says Herald a April 12th Few I imagine would question the substantial sound o w I of Dr Hamiltons position on f ne3 n J I question of beating lighting and I I 6 ventilation and no one probably at i with the subject will n all familiar question ques-tion what he says about the effect of I It plumbing work of city houses on the f I fife and health of their occupants 1 From tenement house to palace they I I I are very often almost universally I and disgracefully and dangerously I d t I bad uIt is quite true that such plumbing work aa is Ito be found today in nine out of every ten houses eVen in Fifth ave jnue is unsafe and ought not to be allowed to remain within the same 2 four walls with a family of human J beings w There is no doubt 3 that the wide distribution of plumb 1 lug appliances throughout the whole II house has led to a great increase of risk and to a wide dissemination of dangerous deflects t Practically these two gentlemen have condemning almost the entire plumbing of London and New York J I Where then will Colonel Waring or i j Mr Wingate or Dr Billings all of whom say it can be supply us i I with the proof that it has been and loan be made asfe for anv considerable length of time What reasons have jrie to suppose that if a wide distribution distribu-tion cannot be safe a more limited distribution can be Colonel Paring intimates that 3 lira not a professional sanitarian I for I would nothave differed with him upon the practicability of excluding poisonous gases from our houses ruder ru-der the modern system of plumbing f and upon certain other points and warns the people through both the Herald and the Mail and Express to take no steps backward In the essential essen-tial improvement of the adjuncts of our daily life Lst me remind Colonel Waring that all medical men are by virtue of their calling professional sanitarians sani-tarians They are not indeed sanitary sani-tary engineers and there are many things which this class of specialists can teach us but there are quite as many things perhaps which medical men can teach them We would gladly get information from Colonel Waring and other sanitary engineers or from plumbers how the pipes can be connected with cur dwelling houses and poisonous germs be effectually excludedfor medical men believe that both sewer gases and the germs they hold and fructify are dangerous dan-gerous to health We understand lally that these gentlemen rqclare it can be done and they have when asked each in his own way described their peculiar methods but as we understand them it has not been done yet unless it be for short periods of time in London or New York and it is not unreasonable therefore that we should remain sceptical until some evidence is furnished fur-nished of the correctness of their assertions as-sertions WOULD IT BE BETTER OR IS IT FBACIIC ABLE TO PLACE ALL OUR PLUMBING DJ HIS CLIMATE IN AJTESTEXSION Professor Willard Parker said in the Academy at the close of the dieI cusaion I think this is a subject of toe greatest importance and one which it is our duty to be interested in II It I were to build a house I would not have it connected in any way with a sewer I would < construct a sort of annex where I would have all the sewers closets and Pipes of the house To this auggos ion I gave my approval understanding understand-ing Parker to mean by the term a sort of annex an extension Colonel 1 Waring says that in this clioaate it is impossible to do thIs in a building substantially detached from the main house without too greatly increasing the cost It ia Drobable that Colonel Waring mean to say that the piPES would freeze although he does not Bay BO A proPer pro-Per answer might be that coat cannot be fairly put in the bal anca against the value of life and tuac with many of our citizens it would never be so placed if they were tully convinced where the danger lay i It would not add much to the cost to properly pack and protect the pipes against the frost of winter nor to i convey to the annex from the furnace where furnaces are tolerated in a house a hot air or steam pipe Indeed In-deed for myself I would be glad if hot air furnaces were neyer employed except for the purpose of warming such annex I do not think however that our language conveyed to Colonel Waring precisely what Professor Parker and myself meant in using the term annex In this city as I have just intimated it is generally employed aa meaning an extension in which there is no connection with the main building except by a door sometimes including a short and narrow hallway hall-way This was the sense in whioh I need the term and probably Dr Parker also That this plan is not impracticable in this climate has been proven satisfactorily satis-factorily in this city where it is quite common to place moru or less of the plumbing in the rear of the building or in an extension With proper precautions it can always be protected from frost A circular dated March 13th 1882 designed to convince the public ol the superior sanitary arrangements of the Heath Houee Sohooleya Mountain New Jersey contains a certificate from Charles F Winaate Consulting Sanitary Engineer a portion of which reads as follows I 11 found the plum bing fixtures all placed in an extension so as to be completely isolated from the rest of the hotel and with a free circulation of air around them There are no basins in the bedrooms In abort sanitary considerations eeem to have been studied at every point and this I am sure will have clue weight with future guests Mr Wingate is the same gentleman gentle-man to whom reference has been made aa having declared before tha Academy of Medicine that it was foolishness to talk of the risks of health from modern plumbing arrangements ar-rangements when they could be made perfectly sate It would seem that this excellent sanitary engineer had become fully convinced of the soundness of the opinions entertained en-tertained by Professor Parker and myself we hating suggested only that for purposes of safety all the plumbing plumb-ing should be confined to annex Will Mr Wingate explain why if plumbing can be made perfectly safe the guests at the Heath House should be deprived of the comfort of having their basins and other plumbing fix hues in or near their rooms Finally in view of the great and increasing mortality of our city I ask medical men to consider whether U will not be well to look hereafter more to the unsanitary condition of our houses and to charge less to the unsanitary condition of streets At any rate this subject ia I think entitled titled to a more careful consideration from medical men than it baa actually actu-ally received JVew York Medical Gazette |