The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 306
think that the knowledge that,if a cesspool is built in certain kinds ofsoil and of certain materials, it will age is harmless after filtration throughso much earth, and continue to drinkdiluted sewage as had been their cus-tom. Personally I have a strong objec-tion to swallowing the stuff which… … Fig. VIII. — Diagram showing contamination of well-water by cesspool. sooner or later begin to allow its con-tents to leak into the surroundingearth ; and that the filth will penetratethe soil to a great depth, and that itwill thus inevitably find its way into thewater of a well, would lead any man…
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