| Show public health at a recent meeting of the engineers chut of Pail philadelphia adelphis mr A Mari marichal clial read a paper on the health ol of cities and towns of which the following is ie an abstract water supply ln in many cities the water works aie supplied nei tifer with littera nor subsiding reservoir and after a heavy rain toe water contains clay powder which is decidedly injurious jun lous especially to children causing inflammation ot of the bowels and other troubles the cause of which is generally unknown although altho uga thousands of peo people le are affected lap if every property owner would consider a filter as no less part of a dwelling than a tati bath tub or a water closet ii a supply ot of pure water would be enjoyed by the poor as well as oy by the rich and without appreciable cost to any one drainage flie fhe system of sewers should be such as not to allow jiny any filthy matter to remain in them more gnau twelve hours to these results the sewers should have sufficient fici evit slopes and should be flushed every day the tae flushing can ue oe attended to by the police consequently without extra cost for labor and that by simply opening thy the tire plus plug thus we cleansing ansing the gutters and the inlets and accelerating the flow in the sewers manholes should lie be made air ti tight h t ventilation pipes should be placed at the upper part of the sewer should be exten extended olk under the pavement to the house line and thence carried above the root of the buildings these anese pipes need not oe be of large diameter but should be numerous C Ut 6 spools should be strictly pro hibicki it is will known that the germs of cholera are transmitted through the fecal matters in acety where cesspools ces spools are allowed it would be impossible to control the ravages ot of the disease paving the very first thing to be thought of in III paving a street Is to pr provide ovidia gutters cutters with sufficient slopes belgian clocks blocks placed lea lengthwise will make an effective fi sutter titter the slope should be at ac least 0 5 per cent inlets should riot not be more than feet apart when streets are level they should oe be madlof eidde of cast iron and not ol 01 aric aricks its street Clean fiig lt it should be done between betwee A in and 5 a in as it is unsafe to whale inhale all the dust accod this abiol ion 3 11 street oars cars there are perhaps few causes causee contributing more to increase the death rate gau than the deliberate overcrowding of street cars municipal authorities aut bonties should li limpp the number of passengers to be admitted on a car Iho Av ellings the height of a building should never exceed the width of the street and each story should be at least nine feet high in any room where persons have to spend sevel several lil hours 1000 cubic feet of space per capita should be provided each room should have twenty square teet leet of light per 1000 1003 cubic feet of space etc ate |
