Wholesome houses : being an exposition of the Banner system of sanitation / by Edward Gregson Banner.

  • Banner, E. Gregson.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Wholesome houses : being an exposition of the Banner system of sanitation / by Edward Gregson Banner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    the rooms of tlie house ; yet it seems clear that it would he most advantageous that the sewers should he ventilated at 10,000 openings into them/' hy a separate 'pi]}e for that sole purpose, being led from a real trap in tlie base- ment to above the roof of each house ; such pipes being fitted with coivls, which will draio the foul air out of the seivers, and thus cause the ^'ground'' ventilators to supply fresh air to the sewer, instead of foul air from the sewer passing out of them. As is suggested by Mr. Thomas Beid in the Sanitary Recorxl of 19th ultimo, '' ventilators carried above the roofs of buildings should he for the discharge of setuer gas,. and not for the supply of fresh air!'' And by Dr. Carpenter in the same paper, '' The principle to be kept in view is that there shall be a sufficient number in the periphery of the system which shall promote a movement from below upwards; make openings enough, and danger is dispersed, or rather does not come at alL A continuous current carries atvay the sewer gases before they are concentrated enough to do harm.^' E. Greg SON Bannek. October Sth, 1874. In a long letter recently published in the Architect,. one of the correspondents of that journal, speaking of the Banner System of House Sanitation, a system at once so simj)le yet so effective, thus describes it:— It is a tri-partite system, consisting of, first, * the trap; ^ secondly, 'the inlet pipe; ' and, thirdly, 'the cowl.' The first unit herein is based upon one of the simplest principles—and one of the oldest known to us—that of the steel-yards; the second is something entirely new, when appHed to the venti- lation of drains or soil-pipes. I say entirely new, because I