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docs not show, is a sink drain, which runs out on top of the 

 ground just under the back window. From the well to the 

 manure heap is perhaps forty feet. 



Figure 2 shows the same house (on the left), the barn (on 

 the right), and a view of the well with the milk cans drain- 

 ing behind it. The water from the well was found upon 

 analysis to be contaminated by a very large amount of or- 

 ganic impurity, the very high chlorine showing it to be of 

 animal orig'in. 



FiGUEE No. 4. 



Figure No. 3 is of a well (directly before the horse) 

 which received the drainage of such buildings as the picture 

 shows, also a very filthy pig pen, concealed by the door of 

 the shed. The ow^ner claims that a ledge runs a few feet 

 under the surface, in the direction of the arrow. This is 

 probably true, and the conditions give but very slight oppor- 

 tunity for filtration and consequent oxidation of sewage 

 before it reaches the w^ell. 



Figure 4 is another of the cases to which the attention of 

 the Board has been called by the local inspector. The l)arn, 

 forty by forty feet, is all open inside. No particular place 



