Dangers to Health. A pictorial guide to domestic sanitary defects / by T. Pridgin Teale.

  • Thomas Pridgin Teale
Date:
1879
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Credit: Dangers to Health. A pictorial guide to domestic sanitary defects / by T. Pridgin Teale. 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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    PLATE II. House with faulty sanitary arrangements avoided. This plate is intended to shew the reverse of the last, and to indicate the manner in which the faults can be rectified, but does not profess to lay down a strict rule as to the best arrangements. A. Water-closet against outer waU of house, with soil-pipe passing directly out of the house, and ventilated by a pipe continuing the soil-pipe above the eaves, and away from chimneys or windows. B. B. House drains entirely outside the house. C. Lavatory, D. Ower-i]ow of bath, E. Waste-pipe of bath, F. Save-all tray of bath, and Gr. Kitchen sink, to which might be added a housemaid's sink, all trapped and disconnected from the drain, and discharging into an open gully trap, L. H. Over-flow of cistern into the open air.* K. Fall-pipe near bedroom window discharging into gully L. M. Domestic cistern distinct from w.c cistern. For more exact drawing of w.c, vide Plate XXI. * Kequired by rule of Waterworks Committee of Leeds Town Council. Building Bye-Laws of Leeds, 33f, 33i, 33j, 40, 53. Vide appendix.
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