 And yet in that very city, and on the higher grounds where all the wealthy people live, the cesspools were dug down directly into that same stratum of sand through which this water flowed down to the lower parts of the city. When I was examining that...  Report - Page 102by Citizens' Water Investigation Committee of the City of Sacramento - 1901 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sacramento (Calif.). Citizens' Water Investigation Committee - 1901 - 160 pages
...water flowed down to the lower parts of the city. When I was examining that city, I had a small keg of coal oil put into a cesspool on one of the lots up...purified by the only purifying means that we know of — bacteria. If you have the shallow cesspool, such as they have in the country houses, here as... | |
 | Charles Gilman Hyde, George H. Wilhelm, Frank C. Miller - 1916 - 814 pages
...small keg of coal oil put Into a cesspool on one of the lots up town, and within a few days the people below were complaining because the water of the wells...deep enough, so that this water in the cesspools will leach out and be at a level below which it cannot be purified by the only purifying means that we know... | |
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