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HOUSEHOLD WASTES.

A Discussion of the best Methods of Treatment of the
Sewage of Farm-houses, Isolated Country Houses,
Suburban Dweilings, Houses in Villages and
Smaller Towns, and of Larger Institutions,
snch as Hospitals, Asylums, Hotels,
Prisons, Colleges, etc., and of the
Modes of Removal and Disposal

of Garbage, Ashes, and other
Solid House Refuse.

BY

WM. PAUL GERHARD, C. E.,
Consulting Engineer for Sanitary Works,
NEW YORK CITY.

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D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY,

23 MURRAY AND 27 WARREN STREETS.

1904.

COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY.

NO VIMU AIMBORLIZO

THE author's book on "House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing,” published in 1882, in this Science Series, did not include a discussion of the all-important question of how to dispose of the waste matters of the household in the safest, least disagreeable, most efficient and most economical manner, but it was promised by him that a future volume. would be devoted to the "Disposal of Household Wastes."

The manuscript for this volume was prepared in the spring of 1886. Portions of it appeared, as a series of articles, in the Chicago Inland Architect, and were reprinted in the twelfth annual Report of the State Board of Health of Rhode Island. Some circumstances over which the author had no control and the various duties of a busy professional life prevented the completion of the manuscript for publication in book form.

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While the book as now offered to the public is not as complete as the author would wish to make it, particularly as regards illustrations, it is published in its present form at the urgent request of friends.

It discusses, in language as free as possible from technical terms, the disposal of the sewage, and of garbage and ashes, chiefly from the householder's point of view.

It has been the author's endeavor to give perfectly unbiassed descriptions and unprejudiced comparisons of the various systems which, at the present day, seem to offer a possible solution of the problem, supplementing the same with a few examples from his own practice.

For any omissions, the author asks. the kind indulgence of his readers, promising that these will be rectified in future editions of the book, if such should be called for.

NEW YORK, May 1, 1890.

THE AUTHOR.

39 UNION SQUARE.

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