Guide to sanitary inspections / by William Paul Gerhard.

  • William Paul Gerhard
Date:
1909
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Credit: Guide to sanitary inspections / by William Paul Gerhard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    isolated from direct contact with the surrounding soil; it should have a light and cheerful aspect, and the sur- roundings should be in every way unobjectionable; it should be constructed with a view to constant and complete dryness of foundations, walls, and roof; it should have rooms of such a size as to prevent any over- crowding; there should be sufficient ventilation to remove any impurities from respiration, cutaneous perspiration, combustion of fuel, gaseous products of illumination, fumes from cooking, and vapors of steam and soap from the laundry, and noxious odors from plumbing-fixtures; it should have a free admission of pure outer air, of light, and of the sun’s invigorating rays during at least a few hours each day. The house must be provided with efficient and unobstructed sewer- age, to remove at once all liquid household wastes; and with a good supply of pure and cool water for drinking and cooking purposes, for house-cleaning and laundry purposes, flushing of traps, fixtures, and waste-pipes. Besides, a house should be provided with means for a perfect distribution of an equalized and agreeable tem- perature; and with means for artificial lighting without deteriorating the atmosphere of halls and rooms. The protection from the danger of fire should be as complete as it is possible to make it; the removal of garbage and ashes should be prompt and regular, and effected with- out creating any offence; and there should be through- out the house as little as possible chance for the accumu- lation of dirt and dust. “Domestic sanitation,” says Dr. B. W. Richardson, one of the greatest sanitarians which England has had, “aims at constructing homes, or improving houses already constructed, so as to remove all defects which may affect health. The essentials for maintaining per- fect salubrity in a house are,—
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