A handbook of house sanitation : for the use of all persons seeking a healthy home ; a reprint of those portions of Mr. Bailey-Denton's lectures on sanitary engineering given before the school of military engineering, Chatham, which related to the "dwelling."

  • John Bailey Denton
Date:
1882
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Credit: A handbook of house sanitation : for the use of all persons seeking a healthy home ; a reprint of those portions of Mr. Bailey-Denton's lectures on sanitary engineering given before the school of military engineering, Chatham, which related to the "dwelling.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 113. 181 A. Filter. h. Receiver of filtered water made to any size, in slate or other material. C. Ball valve for supplying filter. ]). Filtering material. E. Regulating valve for preventing the admission of water at a greater rate than it will filter. ill various sizes so as to serve for small as well as large establish- ments.* It should be placed below the service cistern in some accessible spot which will allow of the material being kept clean. Its adoption possesses the following advantages. All water used for cooking as well as drinking can be passed through it, for, as will be readily understood by reference to the illustration, as filtered water is withdrawn from the lower storage receptacle, an equal quantity is admitted into the filtering vessel above from the general service cistern. By the perfect aeration of the filtering materials all organic matters absorbed by the water when in the house cistern become oxidized and rendered harmless. As the water * Professor Corfield, having had his attention called to this filter, which was patented in 1876, states in his Lectures on Health in 1880, that there is a filter, the construction of which is novel. It is called the rter^^w^f filter, though from the context of his remarks it would appear that he might be referring to some other invention unknown to the writer. •