Vent-pipe Connected on House Side of Bath-tub Trap. This Work was Performed Under the Direction of a Master Plumber in the Year 1899. The building shown in the foregoing sketch is used for stores and offices on the first floor, and as a boarding-house on the second floor. For some time prior to the inspection, which revealed the conditions above shown, gases from the main-sewer found access into the building through the abandoned open drain, in such quantities that at times the occupants of one of the sleeping-rooms were obliged to vacate. The odors were also particularly bad in one of the officerooms on the first floor of the building and caused considerable annoyance to the tenants. AND TRAP SEWER DRAIN First Floor, Offices. Second Floor, Boarding House. STREET 1 1 1 1 1 Smoke introduced into House Sewer through opening in Pipe at Curb. 4"Abandoned House Sewer. |