Excerpt from The Home Medical Library, Vol. 5 In large cities the water supply is a problem that is cared for by regularly constituted sanitary author ities. Pure water is a vital necessity, but the inhabitant of a city has no need to personally concern himself with the source of supply. In the country, however, the home builder must often decide the matter for him self, and it is the aim of this book to give him the needed directions for avoiding many errors and pitfalls that abound in this direction. House construction, with its intricate problems, is also a more serious matter for the country dweller than for his city brother. 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.