The dwelling house / by George Vivian Poore.

  • Poore G. V. (George Vivian), 1843-1904.
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The dwelling house / by George Vivian Poore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    I.AHDEllS :}1 that the Hue of the kitchen tire, or any other tine, should not toiich tlie wall of the larder. !i. G(X)d ventilation is essential. The windows should he big, and should be protected on the outside with wire gauze, so as to prevent the access of flies or other insects. t. On no account must there be a gully coinniunicating with any underground drain or sewer either inside or, indeed, near to any place where foral is store<l. In short, we must hear in mind that sewer-jHjisoning may lx* indirect through the food, as well as direct from the sewer itself. When the shelves and floor of a larder are washed, they should be wiped dry, and such washing should be carried out in dry weather, so that the drying process may be complete. We all know how sensitive food is to unwholesome con- taminations, and one may well have a doubt as to the sanitary condition of show dairies, where a cool, plashing fountain ])lays in the centre, Ixcause such fountain must have a waste-pipe, and one must fear that such waste-pi|K- communicates with a drain. dairy, equally with a larder, should l>e kei>t cool and dry, and should offer no facilities for the ingress of putrefactive products from a sewer. I have already pointed out that it is no protection have waste-pipes trapjxd, l>e<*au8e in every form of trap one must have stagnation, and wherever stagnation occurs there must be putrefaction. very small (piantity of food-refuse or milk is enough to set up putrefaction in a trap. If any outlet for water is thought desirable in a larder, it should be in the form of an oj)en gutter which can be thoroughly cleaned and drie<l, and which should pass directly through the wall on the floor-level, the o|K*n- ing in the wall lie closed by a sliding trap-door when the gutter is not Ixing use<l. No bacteriologist mtsls to W; reminded that a water-trap is nw'essarily a cultivating cimml)er.