Wholesome houses : a handbook of domestic sanitation and ventilation / by E. Gregson Banner.

  • Banner, Edward Gregson.
Date:
1882
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    opinion part of the combined arrangement had been anticipated by previous patents, but after an inquiry which lasted for several months the objections of these officials were shown to be groundless, and the patent was granted to me on the 20th of February, 1877, No. 187,503. During the Brighton Congress, in October, 1875, when I first notified my new system to the public, a large number of the leading sanitarians of England visited my house and examined the method. Among these gentlemen were Mr. Eassie, C.E., Mr. Rogers Field, Mr. H. H. Collins, Mr. Somers Clarke, jun., Dr. Farre, Dr. Hardwick, Dr. Richardson, Dr. Ryalls, Mr. Lewis Angell, and a host of experienced medical officers of health, as Drs. Haviland, Robinson, Syson, Fussell, Taaffe, Kebbell, &c., and not one of these gentlemen raised the slightest question as to the novelty of the invention, and not one had even seen the triple com- bination before, and now it has become a sanitary axiom. In confirmation of this statement I may refer my readers to the following letter, published by Professor Fleeming Jenkin in the Sanitary Record on the 23rd of February, 1877, viz.:— “THE VENTILATION OF HOUSE DRAINS. “( To the Editor of the Sanitary Record.) “Sir,—I see many letters concerning the ventilation of house drains in your paper, and the great majority of your correspondents seem to take it for granted that it is desirable to force as much air as possible through these drains. I have no wish to write dog- matically on the subject, hut I should he very glad if some of your correspondents would tell me whether there is any experimental
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