Sweet’s indexed catalogue of building construction for the year 1906 (1906)
New York : Chicago : Architectural Record · leaf 525
e them placed on their service pipes. Even where water is filtered and pumped from a reser-voir, it contains bits of iron pipe, sand, shells, weeds, fungusgrowths and fibrous particles, and unless the results of sys-tematic straining can be seen it will scarcely be believed thatdrinking water… … Fig. 6MUELLER WATER STRAINER When the water is being pumped direct from a lake or stream, which is often necessary when a reservoir is beingrepaired, foul matter is all the more likely to enter the service pipes, and, if not intercepted, find its way to the humansystem. Not only do these particles…
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