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Cottage Sanitation. 
short distance, as shown in the diagram (fig. 8); or, if that is impracticable, 
by a disconnecting chamber with very free ventilation, arranged in some 
such manner as is shown in fig. 9. In both sketches the house is represented 
only by a blank wall, and in both the distance to the cesspool is shortened 
to get the drawings into the page. 
“ If there really must be one at all, the further the cesspool is away the 
better ; and the sewage should be carried to it in pot-pipes. . . . 
“ Though solid excrement should, if possible, be kept out of the cesspool, 
and taken by some dry method direct to the land, ordinary slop-water must 
on no account be regarded as innocuous. On the contrary, containing, as it 
does, potentialities of infinite mischief, it should be got as speedily away 
from the premises as possible. The offensiveness complained of in the case 
quoted was due to sewage consisting solely of slop-water.” * 
(4) The refuse of animals. — The way in which the cottager’s 
cow or pig is kept often causes a nuisance. Frequently the 
Fig. 10.— Pigsty and m.-inuro he-aii .against wall of lujiiso. 
cowhouse or pigsty is placed against the house wall with a door 
simply of hardened earth, so that the liquid filth soaks through 
into tlie foundations. 
These buildings ought to be at a distance from the dwelling 
(never less than 20 feet), and should have a floor of impervious 
material so laid that all liquids drain away at once into a 
covered, but disconnected, cesspool or directly on to the land. 
A manure heap ought to be on a site constructed like that 
of the privy-midden if it is near the cottage, or if there is a ivell 
anywhere in the vicinity. Indeed the two middens are generally 
combined. But it is better to cany the manure every day to a 
' Tliis quotation, as well as figures 4, S, 9, are, by the kind permission of 
the publisher, Mr. Ricliard Jackson, Leeds, re 2 >roduced from 7s vii/ Jloutc 
Healthy ? a shilling handbook by Dr. J. Spottiswoode Cameron. 
