Excerpt from Sewer-Gas and Its Dangers: With an Exposition of Common Defects in House Drainage, and Practical Information Relating to Their Remedy This is not a scientific treatise on sewer-gas, nor does it undertake to impart technical information on plumbing and the construction of house drains. It is the result of investigations made by an impartial inquirer in this city for the purpose of ascertaining to what extent that bane of city life, sewer-gas, is responsible for sickness and discomfort. An inquiry into the effects of the poisonous gas in a single instance in the month of July, 1879, suggested a possibility of similar results in other houses than the one examined. Investigations from that time were systematically pursued, and the astonishing prevalence of sewer-gas poisoning, and consequent illness and death in every part of the city, among all classes and in houses of the best as well as the poorest construction, gradually developed. These continued through the remainder of the Summer and Fall of that year, and were again taken up and pursued during the Winter just passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.