djacent to the housemaids sinksand the closets, were quite uninhabitable. A residence which I was lately called upon to remedy,and which presented even worse points than the foregoing,inasmuch as the cesspools were partly in the basement ofthe house, is sketched at fig. 97. This drawing exhibits 88… … above the basement or cellar cesspools and old brickdrains. At A I laid bare a cesspool about five feet square,and five feet in depth; at B, one four feet by two feet Alt Unhealthy Cotmtry House. 89 and five feet in depth ; and at c a smaller one, com-municating with A. All were full of soil, silt,…
