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Excerpt from Sewage and the Bacterial: Purification of Sewage
For houses in isolated positions the cesspool till lately was the only available means of sewage disposal, and architects and others spent considerable time and skill Upon its design in the early Victorian period, when sanitary progress first drew atten tion to its importance. I give the following as an example of its successful use, which is interesting on account of its being antecedent both to the French automatic scavenger, to be described in a subsequent chapter, and to the modern septic tank In 1858 a large school in Derbyshire, situate on the top of a lofty hill, surrounded by its own land, but at a distance of two miles from a small river which ran through other property.
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