K^lSrS^S CITY 



Review of Science and Industry, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 



VOL VIII. MARCH, 1885. NO. n. 



MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 



SANITARY PLUMBING.i 



JOHN FEE, M. D. 



I feel highly honored and gratified with your invitation to address you this 

 evening. It gives me pleasure to meet this Society, composed of gentlemen en- 

 gaged in the same work, that of practical sanitation, which has occupied my 

 time and labor during the past four years. 



I feel gratified with the privilege of meeting you here because I know we 

 can enlighten the people of this city in regard to proper plumbing and house 

 drainage, and place one branch of the art of practical sanitation in such promi- 

 nence before the public that its untold benefits may be properly understood and 

 appreciated. 



We have reached the time in this city when the public must be instructed in 

 regard to one of the most indispensable arts known to man ; an art which, more 

 than any other, perhaps, makes the possibility of a great city, and without which 

 mankind would spread out over the country and harmonize with the teachings of 

 Mr. Ruskin. 



The intelligent plumber is a practical sanitarian, and his work properly done 

 gives cleanliness, comfort and health. The work of the ignorant and unscrupu- 

 lous plumber, however, brings expense, discomfort and disease. 



1 Delivered before the Master Plvimbers' Association of Kansas City^ Febriiary 10, 1885. 

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