Dwelling Houses: Their Sanitary Construction and ArrangementsLewis, 1885 - 117 Seiten |
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... fitting doors , crevices in the floors , walls , and cupboards , through the walls themselves , as has been shown by Pettenkofer , and sometimes down the chimney . If , then , air will come in through an aperture placed in any position ...
... fitting doors , crevices in the floors , walls , and cupboards , through the walls themselves , as has been shown by Pettenkofer , and sometimes down the chimney . If , then , air will come in through an aperture placed in any position ...
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... fitted with little boxes containing cotton - wool , through which the air will be filtered and deprived of soot , & c . This , of course , very considerably diminishes the amount of air that enters , and the cutting also weakens the ...
... fitted with little boxes containing cotton - wool , through which the air will be filtered and deprived of soot , & c . This , of course , very considerably diminishes the amount of air that enters , and the cutting also weakens the ...
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... fitted either into an outer wall or into one between the room and the passage or hall . It consists of a metal box to fit into the hole in the wall , with a heavy metal flap , which can swing forwards , and is ex- actly balanced by a ...
... fitted either into an outer wall or into one between the room and the passage or hall . It consists of a metal box to fit into the hole in the wall , with a heavy metal flap , which can swing forwards , and is ex- actly balanced by a ...
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... fitted . It also occa- sionally admits a little soot , and , of course , air at the same time , from the flue into the room . Boyle's exit ventilator , made by Messrs . Comyn , Ching and Co. , is a modification of this . Instead of the ...
... fitted . It also occa- sionally admits a little soot , and , of course , air at the same time , from the flue into the room . Boyle's exit ventilator , made by Messrs . Comyn , Ching and Co. , is a modification of this . Instead of the ...
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... fitted with fans or vanes . The wheel is made to revolve by a jet of water directed against it , and supplied from a cistern overhead , the water passing off by a pipe into a cistern below . The apparatus can be fixed either in an inlet ...
... fitted with fans or vanes . The wheel is made to revolve by a jet of water directed against it , and supplied from a cistern overhead , the water passing off by a pipe into a cistern below . The apparatus can be fixed either in an inlet ...
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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,...