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Sanitary arrangements for dwellings : intended for the use of officers of health, architects, builders, and householders (1874)

Eassie, William, 1832-1888 · London : Smith, Elder & Co. · leaf 78

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69 to construct a general ash-pit, where ashes, brokenpottery, vegetable refuse, and garbage of all sorts can bethrown, and found preferable to convey elsewhere every-thing except the ashes, using these as a deodorant forthe excreta. In such a case, I can recommend the ash-closet drawn at fig. 89,… … The cinders fall into a box, and the ash-dust andfaeces into either a portable tank behind the door, orinto a water-tight vault. The upper sketch illustratesthe closet just after having been used and the cindersscreened. Closet arrangements on the nested, or rangeprinciple, can also be built on the…

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