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arrangements which have proved successful, taking care to provide excessive rather than defective precautions against failure.
Experience will soon shew
I have
what is unnecessary included the fitting of water Closets, for
I believe that even now, though generally inapplicable, they cannot be wholly dispensed with, and because ultimately this use will be demanded by Europeans. I have therefore endeavoured to shew the arrangement by which they may be made harmless to the mmates of the dwelling
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In Appendix II Plans for public latrines are given, in
which
which I trust
many glaring
defects of the existing system
are avoided
Appendiy III contains the result of experiments
tidal currents, made with
a view to determine the best
an outfall.
position for an
There
are many other -points of detail on which might have been discussed, but I believe that to do Lo before the general questions of principle have been clecided on would only introduce complication, and divert attention from the main issue, namely the necessity
or otherwise for
reforming the existing system.
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