Cesspit

Goal: Educate home buyers as to why a septic inspection is so important before buying Word count in this document: 797 Title: Why you should get your future home's septic inspected before buying it If you're looking to buy a home, you should always get it inspected first. You can never be careful when making a huge purchase like this, so it's always a good idea to get it thoroughly inspected before you sign those final papers. Aside from getting your potential future home inspected, you should also find out if it has a septic system. If it does, then you should also get a septic inspection as well. This is really important and is completely necessary to do before you buy any home. A septic system is different from what other homes might have. It provides a special plumbing solution to homes that aren't served by municipal facilities. Usually, a home doesn't have access to municipal facilities because of where it is located. The plumbing system that's connected to a septic tank is very reliable, and although it might not be what you're used to having, it works just like other residential plumbing system. The only different is that instead of flushing waste water in municipal pipes, the waste water is stored. It is put into an underground tank and is then treated to become clean. This is why septic systems are so complex and should really be inspected regularly. In the treatment process, liquid and solid waste are separated in the tank. The solid waste will begin to…

served as a playground for the children and also as a cesspit. When it rained, the cesspit would overflow and swamp the yard. All of this was because there was no building code or regulations. The owners were free to do as they wished. Another reason the Victorian cities were so unhealthy were obviously the diseases. Four very common diseases were cholera, typhoid, typhus, and tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB). Treatment for these diseases was given to those who had money, but for the poor,…

While reading the book Out of the Easy you learn that the setting is in New Orleans, and the year is 1950. New Orleans is a dirty city filled with people that all have one goal... to make money. In the 1950’s being a prostitute was illegal, but that was how many women earned a steady income. Josie Moraine is the main character in the book, and her mother is a prostitute. “My mother is a prostitute” (1). Josie learns that New Orleans is not right for her and also has nothing to offer her except…

With vast amounts of people, there was an even greater amount of excess waste. “Rome with a population of c. 800,000-1,000,000 inhabitants in early imperial times would have produced c. 40-50,000 kgs. of body of wastes per day.” Without a consistent sewage system because their drains lacked traps, they found an increase in food contaminants, diseases and fecal waste. In most homes, a cesspit would be in a kitchen, which would lead to the “risk of food contamination in such combined…

Bunda held many disgusting activities. But which lot will not be discussed here. The descriptions of the thirteen levels of this cursed fortress-sewer is as follows, the first floor being the topmost and thirteen the lowest: The first floor enters from a great hall, leading from a long passageway from the secret entrance. Such are the details: Firstly from the exact center of the ruins of the Hobo-Town the first entrance is held. Within a stone citadel there is an enchanted door that will only…

The Cooum has changed a lot in the years since V.H. Shipley’s book of 19 poems on the city, ‘Madrassi Madrigals’ was published in 1928. The book, only two copies of which are known to be in existence, has charming verses on Madras' landmarks such as the boat club, the Guindy race course, Elliot's Beach, Museum Theatre, and activities of the British like hunting, golf and sailing. He describes the Cooum River in one of the poems as follows, ‘Of dirt and smell your sources wake... And near the sea…

signification for her novel, A Question of Power and the relation the myths hold to the universal question of Good and Evil. Bessie Head amalgamates myth and religion. Two aspects of her attitude is highlighted. One is, myths express the evolutionary nature of man’s psyche and the other is, myths ought to be set aside in context in which their efficacy to man is not their function. The heroine of the novel, Elizabeth proves it. The beauty of the desert landscapes happens to be a harmonious…

shit. Therefore the plot successfully represents poverty as fun and almost comical. The narrative structure of Slumming It, greatly impacts the view in which the issue of poverty is represented. Straight of the bat, as soon as McCloud arrives in Dharavi he criticises it for every little thing he sees wrong with the place. Whether it be people living in mediocre shelters to the abhorrent hygiene, like when the young boy is defecating on the side of the footpath, for example which everyone seems…

Throughout history one of the main environmental health problems is that the world is still unsafe. The overpopulation of people in cities made sanitary problems acute. The greatest cities of Europe were filled with huge piles of waste, and contaminated sources of water. The spread of diseases would get even worse when the rain would wash into the local the watershed, the waste dumped onto the streets. Toilets were not as common and were built near a body of water, which then polluted the…

dehydration. The blood then becomes thick and sticky and an electrolyte imbalance can occur. Because severe dehydration is a medical emergency if a person infected with cholera is not treated death can occur within days of the first symptoms. Death did occur in most people who caught cholera in London because of this cholera was the biggest disease epidemic of the nineteenth century. At the time cholera struck London the city was covered with human and animal waste. The majority of London’s…