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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE DRY-CLOSET SYSTEMS. introduc-We have now to consider the two methods which tor) have arisen more or less directly out of the incompleteness of the two foregoing ones, and which are the only ones that we can look upon as in any way affording something approaching to a solution of the question of excremental removal. The first of these, the so-called dry-closet system, has for its object the separation of the excremental matters in toto from the sewage, and the removal of a great part of them at any rate in a dry and inoffensive condition. The best form of this system, according to its originator, professes also in an indirect sort of manner to treat the other house refuse, liquid and solid; how far it is possible that it should practically achieve these results we shall presently see. The other is the water-closet system, by which the whole of the excremental matters, solid and liquid, together with all the liquid house refuse, is washed into the sewers, carried at once away from the vicinity of houses by the unaided force of gravity, and either, as has been hitherto the case allowed to fall into a watercourse or into the sea, or utilised as manure by one of the processes that we shall hereafter describe. ASH CLOSET. The dry closet which. approaches nearest to the best form of midden closet is the one in which ash is used as the deodoriser. This is described in a paper read before the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association by Mr. Morrell, of which an extract is given by the Rivers' Pollution Commissioners, 1868. (First Report, vol. ii. p. 309.) Each closet is provided with Mechiin. an ash-sifter, which is brought into motion by the 18m' opening of the door, the fine ash falling through into a storing measurer, fixed in the back wall. Th...
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