Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.
- William Eassie
- Date:
- 1872
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![foot of the steps, and here, before the door, is placed a large bundle of straw. Besides this door, a trap-door is formed at the surface of the ■well, somewhat on an incline, and this, when covered with straw on the inside, completes the arrangement. In carrying out this kind of well in Germany, it has been found expedient to line the outside of the well with straw, as well as the inside, and to make the filling-in box at the top somewhat larger. In that country they also spread plenty of straw on the surface of the ice. A well of the above dimen- sions, made in the way shown, ought to contain about four tons of ice, and cost something under £15 sterling. It must not be supposed that, because I have only figured ice-weUs with the earth heaped over them, that they cannot be made orna- mtotal in appearance. On the contrary, the most consummate taste will here find a congenial subject; and on the Continent many of the finest pavilions owe their very existence to the necessity for ornament- ing these wells. ICE HOUSES AND COOLING EOOITS. The simplest form of ice-house is that which is mostly in use in North America, and known generally by the name of an ice shanty. A plan and elevation of one is given at fig. 238. The waUs are usually single, especially when the ice can be packed block fashion in the centre, and the space between, of a foot in width, is well packed with sawdust, chafi, or finely chopped straw. A similar thickness of the same] material covers over the ice when packed into the hut. The doors are best made in two heights, so as not to expose the lower blocks](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23982585_0231.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
