Modern plumbing illustrated : a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction ... . e stack, if other waterclosets do not discharge into the same stack. Judgment must be usedin these instances, however, for batteries of fixtures such as lava-tories might be located on the same stack as a single water closet,and be able to throw enough waste into the stack to endanger thewater closet. If it could be depended upon that people of high intelligencewere always to install the plumbing system, and also that in everycase they could be depe


Modern plumbing illustrated : a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction ... . e stack, if other waterclosets do not discharge into the same stack. Judgment must be usedin these instances, however, for batteries of fixtures such as lava-tories might be located on the same stack as a single water closet,and be able to throw enough waste into the stack to endanger thewater closet. If it could be depended upon that people of high intelligencewere always to install the plumbing system, and also that in everycase they could be depended upon to install the work honestly, thereare many conditions constantly arising under which a safe piece ofwork could be constructed without the necessity of venting, whereasventing under the circumstances is required by ordinance. Becausedependence of this nature cannot be made, iron-clad rules must beadopted to make the attainment of perfect work a surety. Plate XXXVII PLUMBING FOR PUBLIC TOILET ROOMSCAUSES OF SIPHONAGE IN THE UN-VENTED PLUMBING SYSTEM F-^lumbing r^r a 2 2^ V ? V ^T -^ y -> ^ \ \\.


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