Dwelling Houses: Their Sanitary Construction and ArrangementsLewis, 1885 - 117 Seiten |
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Seite 49
... collected and used for domestic purposes , and wherever there is any suspicion as to the quality of the water supplied from other sources , rain - water should ( especially in the country ) be used for drinking . It may be filtered ...
... collected and used for domestic purposes , and wherever there is any suspicion as to the quality of the water supplied from other sources , rain - water should ( especially in the country ) be used for drinking . It may be filtered ...
Seite 50
... collected from a gather- ing ground into large impounding reservoirs , and thence taken in pipes to the place to be supplied . Lakes are sometimes utilised . ( 4. ) The water of large rivers is now frequently used as a source of supply ...
... collected from a gather- ing ground into large impounding reservoirs , and thence taken in pipes to the place to be supplied . Lakes are sometimes utilised . ( 4. ) The water of large rivers is now frequently used as a source of supply ...
Seite 71
... collected in so large an amount , or kept for so long in and near the house , and in making the receptacles impervious to water , so that liquids cannot escape from them into the soil around , nor water get into them . Sometimes the ...
... collected in so large an amount , or kept for so long in and near the house , and in making the receptacles impervious to water , so that liquids cannot escape from them into the soil around , nor water get into them . Sometimes the ...
Seite 75
... collected and dried on the spot , and the compost afterwards used upon the garden , the plan has been found very useful if only sufficient care be exercised , and no nuisance need be produced . To sum up with regard to the conservancy ...
... collected and dried on the spot , and the compost afterwards used upon the garden , the plan has been found very useful if only sufficient care be exercised , and no nuisance need be produced . To sum up with regard to the conservancy ...
Seite 76
... collected were valuable , it might , of course , be made to pay the cost of collecting , but this is not the case as a rule , the only instance in which any of these systems have been made to pay being where the excretal matters have ...
... collected were valuable , it might , of course , be made to pay the cost of collecting , but this is not the case as a rule , the only instance in which any of these systems have been made to pay being where the excretal matters have ...
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aërated air inlet aperture apparatus Ball valve basement basin bricks carbonic acid carried cement cistern compartment connected considerable container contrivance course covered cowl D-trap damp-proof course discharge disconnected domestic purposes door drains draught drinking water dust escape excretal matters exit shaft filtering material Fleeming Jenkin floor flue foul air foul water frequently gas burner hard waters holes hopper closet house-sewer impervious impure inside instances joints lead louvres lower main sewer means Messrs metal milk of lime necessary nuisance outer air outlet overflow pipe pass perforated pervious placed prevent products of combustion quantity of water rain-water receptacles refuse matters sash sewer or cesspool sewer trap side silicated carbon sinks siphon trap soft water soil soil-pipe sometimes stoneware stoves supply of water surface tank towns tube typhoid fever valve box ventilating pipe vertical wall warm waste waste-pipe water supplied water-closets window
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Seite 56 - It ought to be an absolute condition for a public water supply that it should be uncontaminated by drainage.
Seite 36 - ... does, whereas one gas burner will consume as much oxygen and give out as much carbonic acid as five or six men, or even more. This is why it is commonly considered that gas is more injurious than lamps...
Seite 66 - This consists chiefly of ashes and cinders ; but, unfortunately, the dust bin or ash pit is only too convenient a receptacle for all kinds of refuse matters, including kitchen debris, and so, in a large number of instances, these receptacles, especially in hot weather, become excessively foul, and an abominable nuisance. If the dust were removed daily, as it should be wherever this is practicable, the mixture of organic matter with it would not be of great importance, but where this cannot be done,...