How to drain a house : practical information for householders / by Geo. E. Waring.

  • George E. Waring, Jr.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to drain a house : practical information for householders / by Geo. E. Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vault. It is only as an unavoidable evil that these have been tolerated; but I can not too strongly urge attention to the point taken above, and insist on the fact that every consideration of humanity, and of the welfare not only of our own families, but of the whole community, demands a speedy reform of this abuse. It will hardly be believed by my more civilized readers that, over more than half of the older settled parts of the United States, even the every-way ob- jectionable system that I have described is comparatively unknown, and that the corn-field and the thicket are the only retreat provided, while the m.ajority of farmers' houses, even at the North, are most inadequately supplied. In view of the foregoing facts, I make no apol- ogy for calling the attention of women themselves to this important matter, believing that they will universally con-