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be as early in the morning as practicable. While, in the V ' 
* contents must be kept dry by charcoal-dust, as les, oi J { 
The new pan ought to have undergone a thorough process 
disinfection. 
Cesspits . — With regard to cesspits it cannot be too strongly 
insisted on that in the vicinity of houses to [f^nrn anyrece^p 
tacle, however well-constructed, a atge , 1 
liquid excrement the, undergo^rja^n -t^ the^for 
matron of offensive gases ib the contents of. a cesspit 
principle. I have already jj>^ ^ the dwelU ng. Most of 
soak into the soi a odours which pervade our atmos- 
us have experienced are dwellings where such smells 
pkere inthee\enin 0 • * , Pcecal odour, if it does not actually 
are a constant C °“‘P. a sta te of depressed vitality which easily 
produce disease P 1 ° a " model bve-laws of the local Government 
leads to disease. • A cesspit should be at least 50 feet away 
Board r ®9 ul '? r d 6 q to 80 feet from a well, spring or stream, 
from a dwe g e xperienceof our barrack yards and even of 
»7re awelling. .ill » the 
some of our 1 local regulation. Some time ago 
urgent ne® esalt y ffering from typhoid fever in a yard in 
I attended a child • & room of a long row of rooms, 
George street. It was - t hat room enter the foul stink- 
and one could with one s p pretty little cottage recently 
ing cesspit directly opposi . i ^ of the bedrooms is not 
built, and not very far ft o ces8p it (which by the way 
more than five or six teen i thp result t ,hat the occupant 
is shared by the next house) awa y by a severe attack of 
of that bed-room was nearly c things that prevails 
dysentery. These are example. the Local Government 
all over ihe town. The model bye la „ £ & should be “ of 
Board enact that the wal Y“ n dered in cement.” L^terly we 
good brick work in comenb « 3 ition to the Board of Healths 
have heard a good deal of *eopp of cessp its. It is obviou 
order in reference to theconcreu g Buttherea ^. for build- 
that it is a sound and sanita^ 
ot cesspit. — 
oraer inww^ . forv order. But the reasons tor Duiiq- 
that it is a sound and sanitary ^ he gr0 und are not so 
in„ th ese new cesspits four feet abo j inaova t a0 n of 
ing mese tr t ^ a0 w this «* should be a 
obvious and as far as condition that there . 
doubtful value. The « h time proper means for 
pure supply of water, an , d us to a considers i 
its removal from the P"*"**. supp lied to the dwelling, 
different ways in which water is supp 
get water : ^ shallow, deep, or artesian. 
1. From wells which may 
2 From the storing of ram 
3 From public water-works. 
