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Title: Sanitary engineering : a guide to the construction of works of sewerage and house drainage, with tables for facilitating the calculations of the engineer
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Latham, Baldwin, d. 1917
Subjects: Sewerage Sewage Drainage, Sanitary
Publisher: London New York : E. & F.N. Spon
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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from which everything offensive is washed away. In all ordinary cases a manhole, arranged near the centre Manholes of the street, is preferable to a side entrance, for then preferable to iii i -1 SKe entrances. the manholes can be used as ventilating shafts, andmoreover the removal of a simple manhole cover,having an opening not more than 2 feet in diameter, is,
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MANHOLES AND LAMPHOLE8. 421 tricts, the sewers are partly ventilated by periodicallyopening the manhole covers and fixing the safety grat-ings. The details of these covers and safety gratingsare given in Plate XIII. Plate xiii. In the construction of manholes in some districts,especially in cases where sand is liable to find its wayinto the sewers, it is advisable to make the floor ofthe manhole at a lower level than the sewers runningin or out of it, as shown in Fig. 98, page 389, so as Catch-pits into form a catch-pit for the deposit of sand. This is sewers> Fl§-98-especially necessary where works of sewerage are inprogress of construction in sandy districts: after allthe works are completed these receptacles should befilled up, and a channel formed across the floor of themanhole, so as to prevent the accumulation of anymatter liable to decomposition. Manholes shouldalways be so constructed as to be used for storing up Manholes usedsewage for flushing purposes, as described at p

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