Dwelling Houses: Their Sanitary Construction and ArrangementsLewis, 1885 - 117 Seiten |
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... taken up at any time to be beaten without moving the furniture which is against the walls . The skirting boards of wooden floors should be let into a groove in the floor . This will serve to prevent draughts coming through , and dust ...
... taken up at any time to be beaten without moving the furniture which is against the walls . The skirting boards of wooden floors should be let into a groove in the floor . This will serve to prevent draughts coming through , and dust ...
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... taken as an index of the impurity of the atmosphere . The average amount of carbonic acid in the outer air is four parts in ten thousand . Professor De Chaumont found by his experiments that , whenever the amount of carbonic acid in the ...
... taken as an index of the impurity of the atmosphere . The average amount of carbonic acid in the outer air is four parts in ten thousand . Professor De Chaumont found by his experiments that , whenever the amount of carbonic acid in the ...
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... taken as the limit of respiratory impurity . As a person breathes out , on the average , six cubic feet of carbonic acid in ten hours , it is clear that , in order that the air of the room in which he is may be kept fresh , he must have ...
... taken as the limit of respiratory impurity . As a person breathes out , on the average , six cubic feet of carbonic acid in ten hours , it is clear that , in order that the air of the room in which he is may be kept fresh , he must have ...
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... taken out and one of these ventilators substituted for it . The louvres can be opened and shut by means of a string , and they are so fixed that it is impossible to break them by do- ing so . They are generally fixed instead of one of ...
... taken out and one of these ventilators substituted for it . The louvres can be opened and shut by means of a string , and they are so fixed that it is impossible to break them by do- ing so . They are generally fixed instead of one of ...
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... taken out and cleansed from time to time . Several contrivances have been devised for the admis- sion of air close to the floor , just behind a perforated skirt- ing board . Among these are Ellison's conical ventilator , mentioned in ...
... taken out and cleansed from time to time . Several contrivances have been devised for the admis- sion of air close to the floor , just behind a perforated skirt- ing board . Among these are Ellison's conical ventilator , mentioned in ...
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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,...