The plumber and sanitary houses : a practical treatise on the principles of internal plumbing work, or the best means for effectually excluding noxious gases from our houses / by S. Stevens Hellyer.

Hellyer, S. Stevens (Samuel Stevens)

Date:: 1893

Credit: The plumber and sanitary houses : a practical treatise on the principles of internal plumbing work, or the best means for effectually excluding noxious gases from our houses / by S. Stevens Hellyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Lip urinal, 337 Local Government Beard, 194 Manholes, 362 ; covers, slate and cast- iron, 363 ; Perfect, 363 ; grating, 184 jNIanhole drain-syphon trap, 80 Mann patent water-closet, 256 Mansions, bad drainage, II Mansion trap, 50 Mansergh trap, 63 Marble baths, 294 Material, sinks, 277 ; traps, 36; venti- lating pipes, 371 McHardy hospital slop-sink, sec- tion, view, and plan, 281 Mechanical valves, or plugs, to water- closets, 26 ; to traps, 58, 105 Mica valve, 78, 88, 181, 182, 185, 352 Milled lead, 329 Momentum, 132, 280' Monkey water-closet, Jennings', 258 Mud-box, 184 Mushroom air inlet, 184, 253, 348 Narrow-band D trap, 47, 61, 114— 136 Newcastle Street lavatory, 310 Nursemaids' sinks, 276, 319 Oblong lavatory, 309 Open channel receiving waste-pipe, 25 Open drains, 351 Open ends, to soil-pipes, 74, 180; waste-pipes, 145. 321, 342 Open traps, cold countries, 74 Open water-closets, 268 Optimus valve water-closet, I55» 190, 199—223 Optimus valve-closet, B, 199; E, table-top, 155, 210, 211 ; F, table-top, Bow-fronted, 212, 215 '■'■Pedestal Optimus 215, 217, 220, 222 ; C, 217 ; G, 190, 216 Ornamental closets, 235 Outlets, of earthenware traps and closets, 226, 235, 238 ; to vent-pipes, 6, 173, 373. 376 Outside pipes, 162, 164, 285 Overflows, downright, 200 ; faulty, 25, 208 ; from tiled floor of water-closets, 219 ; baths, errors, 302 ; detachable, 303 ; secret, 303 ; cisterns, 387 ; from closet into valve-box vent, 200, 204, 206, 218 ; secret and accessible, 307; safes, into open air, 205, 270 ; into closet-trap, 269 ; trapped and carried into soil-pipe, 270 ; smks, 319, 327 ; admitting drain-air, 25, 208 ; carried through wall, 207 ; flaps, etc., 271, 301, 390 Pan closet, ill, 193—198 ; Law. 194 Patent cast-lead trap, Beard & Dent, 50, 55, 140 Patent sewer-gas trap, Bower, 59 Pedestal closets \sce Optimus and Hygienic] Pedestal closets, not always suitable, 247 ; screen, 217, 219 ; seats, 242, 246 ; tier, 239 Peppermint test, 11, 22, 31 Perfect manhole cover, 363 Periodical inspection, 11 Philbrick and Bowditch, experiments with traps, no Pipes, eaten through by gas, 3, 47; doubly and trebly trapped, 4; false heads, 175 ; frost, 409 ; by hydraulic pressure, 167 ; opened to atmosphere, 5 ; soil and waste carried up full size to roof, 148 ; soldered seams, 167 Pipe-shafts, 89, 342, 348, 352 Pipe-shaft disconnecting-trap, 348 Places for fittings, 143 Planning and drainage, 144 Plug and washer, 310, 319, 321, 330; too small, 16 Plug, to cistern-wastes, 389; to lavatory, extra large, 115; to water-closets, 26 Plumbers, mates, 452; registration, 461 Plumbers' soil, 193 Plumbing, cutting out bad, 10 Plumbing and drainage, testing, II Plumbing work at the present time, 450 Pond water, 377 Poor people, healthy houses, 8 Porcelain baths, 294 Porter-Clark process for hard water, 397 Portland cement joint, 226, 227, 241, 253. 359 Position, of cisterns, 3 ; water-closets, 2 Potable water-cisterns, 390 Press, sanitation encouraged, I Principles and Practice of Plumbing, references and extracts, no, 141, 194, 198, 259, 358 Principles of self-cleansing traps, 40 Prisons, water-closets, 244 Professor McHardy slop-sink for hospitals, 282 Public, co-operation with sanitarians, 454 Public lavatories, 312 Pull of water-closet, 212 Pump, storage of rain-watfer, 421 Pure water, 377 Putrid liquids, giving off germs, 34 Quick-waste, lavatories, 54, 308, 311 ; lever valve, 308, 311$