Theatre hygiene : a scheme for the study of a somewhat neglected department of the public health / by Walter E. Roth.
- Roth, Walter E. (Walter Edmund), 1861?-1933.
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Theatre hygiene : a scheme for the study of a somewhat neglected department of the public health / by Walter E. Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![varying from say 10 lbs. to 50 lbs. The water is broken against the deflector, and falls in copious showers over the flames that are within the area of 100 square feet covered by the sprinklers. If the flames, by the rapidity of their movement, should get beyond that area, the next sprinkler is on the watch, and the moment it feels the heat its contents are poured on the flames ; the result is that no tire can gain the mastery where it liberates sufficient of its natural enemy to extinguish the flames, and that is just what it does when the sprinklers are opened.' [I have since been informed by the agents tliat new sprinklers are being patented which would close automatically on the temperature of the burning materials decreasing.] Fig. 5. After any large conflagration in a theatre, with resulting loss of life, the papers are generally flooded with ideas and sugges- tions for prevention of a repetition in the future. Some of these correspondents apparently write in faith and sober earnest, though their suggestions are mostly puerile ; a very good illus- tration in point, as typical of the remainder, is that of a Mr. Ash, evidently considered by the editor of the Times as worthy of insertion in that paper. The proposal is that, at a distance removed from the building, there should be a fire-guard room containing a series of pipes which, on the one hand, are con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24398524_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
