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Cottage Sanitation. 
vicled in cottages. Probably they should be so only where there 
is a tap above them with a copious supply of water. 
Where there is a sink it must be placed against the outer 
wall of the house, the pipe leading from it must be ti-apped 
with an co bend and must then pass directly thi'ough the wall 
to the outside of the house, and be cut off so as to deliver in the 
open air. 
Whether there is a sink or not, there should always be pro- 
vision for immediately carrying all dirty water away from the 
vicinity of the dwelling. The simplest form of this, and one 
perfectly good for an isolated house, is an open channel. This 
must be constructed of impervious material— glazed bricks or 
concrete, or, best of all, glazed half pipes made for the purpose 
— so that the water does not lodge anywhere. 
Should the sewage run into a cesspool or sewer, a trapped 
gully must be provided with a drain of glazed pipes 4 inches in 
diameter. If there is a sink, its pipe should deliver over this 
gully on to a dish stone or into an opening leading beneath the 
grating, as shown to the left hand in tig. 4 on page 637. The 
object of the trap is to prevent gases from the drain from getting 
out near the dwelling. 
The best method of disposing of the sewage is to run it on 
to the land, distributing it over a large surface by a shallow 
ditch, the course of which is changed from time to time, so that 
the soil does not become saturated.* 
' As corroborative of the conclusions on the subject of the disposal of slop 
water, formulated by the writer of the paper, it may be interesting to record 
some recent experiences in a purely agricultural Buckinghamshire village. The 
nonagenarian Sir Harry Verney, the “ father ” of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
has, duj'ing the whole of his long and active life, laboured for the improvement 
of the condition and surroundings of the agricultural labourer, and in this work 
he has had the powerful support of his distinguished relative. Miss Florence 
Nightingale. 
On his estate at Claydon, Buckinghamshire, Sir Harry Vemey has recently 
carried out extensive improvements in the sanitary condition of some of his 
cottages, and the alterations have, for the most part, been in the directions 
indicated in Dr. Wilson’s paper. As neither the neighbouring landowners 
nor the rural sanitary authority could be induced to formulate a joint scheme 
for the sanitation of the villages. Sir Harry Verney has been carrying out 
improvements alfecting some of his own cottages entirely at his own expense. 
The principal changes that have been introduced are, the carrying away in 
pipes of the slop water from the cottages into main sewers, and the immediate 
removal, also in pipes, of the liquid that runs from the pigstyes at the back 
of the cottages. Sinks have been fixed against the outer wall of the houses, 
and are properly trapped. The pipes are socket jointed, and percolation of the 
sullage water into the soil surrounding the well (which unfortunately is some- 
times at the back of the cottages, and near the drains) is thus prevented. 
The pipes from the different sinks are conveyed in separate channels until 
some distance from the cottages, when they open into well-constructed brick 
inspection chambers, through which the drainage is carried in the glazed half- 
