. A treatise on hygiene and public health . Fig. 28.—Jermiiiors all-earthen closet. Fig. 29.—Sink for slops. closets and urinals. Each closet should be provided with doors of ash,having self-closing hinges, and with a wooden seat on hinges, and it should have no other casing. Theentire plumbing and accessoryframework of the closet should beleft exposed, for the sake of clean-liness and ease of repair. Thefloors should be of slabs of slateor marble, to allow the free use ofwater by a hose. A simple meansof separate ventilation for thewater-closet is shown in Figure least a hundred pattern
. A treatise on hygiene and public health . Fig. 28.—Jermiiiors all-earthen closet. Fig. 29.—Sink for slops. closets and urinals. Each closet should be provided with doors of ash,having self-closing hinges, and with a wooden seat on hinges, and it should have no other casing. Theentire plumbing and accessoryframework of the closet should beleft exposed, for the sake of clean-liness and ease of repair. Thefloors should be of slabs of slateor marble, to allow the free use ofwater by a hose. A simple meansof separate ventilation for thewater-closet is shown in Figure least a hundred patterns ofwater-closets have been broughtbefore the public. One of the sim-plest and that requiring the leastcare is known as the Jennings all-earthen closet, and this has beenadopted in many of the hospitalsof the day. Provision should not. Fig. 30.—Spray urinal. only be made for ventilating the seat of the closet, but a ventilating tubeshould also extend from the trap (T) to a shaft above. The vent (P) isprovided in the Jennings closet for this purpose. One water-closet should GENEKAL PKINCIPLES OF HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION. 763 be provided for every ten patients. A sink should be provided in tliesame apartment for the disposal of slops and the contents of chamber-vessels (Fig. 29). It should be supplied with a large tap for water. Anexcellent form of urinal is one in which a thin spray or sheet of water isthrown out from a jet to tlie sides of the basin, forming a complete veilthrough which the urine is projected into the vessel (Fig. 30). This planhas recently been patented, and has been used in some of the public question may arise whether independent water-closets or privies,outside the building, may not be serviceable for those patients who areable to be in the open air. If it be thought desirable to have
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