A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . arket would be atedious and useless task, for the patented devices alone run up into the 523 ymndnsdH. Tluircfon!, in tlu; following V-^\iy^j y tJfHf wliioli rimybe tukcM us iyj»(;s <»( tli(; worst iiiid Itcst, will he dcsftrihcd. I*irsf. willbo (l(!H(,ril)(i(l lJi«»s(! of ( obj(!f;l-ioii;ibl(; f;<)(.riiclioii. ThcHr; iri-cIikKs a iiiirnbcT wliic-li, while lli(;y urc no longer inlrodnccd in com-munities huvinfi^ mod<!rii pliinibing regulutif^riH, cxihf in ofbouses, int
A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . arket would be atedious and useless task, for the patented devices alone run up into the 523 ymndnsdH. Tluircfon!, in tlu; following V-^\iy^j y tJfHf wliioli rimybe tukcM us iyj»(;s <»( tli(; worst iiiid Itcst, will he dcsftrihcd. I*irsf. willbo (l(!H(,ril)(i(l lJi«»s(! of ( obj(!f;l-ioii;ibl(; f;<)(.riiclioii. ThcHr; iri-cIikKs a iiiirnbcT wliic-li, while lli(;y urc no longer inlrodnccd in com-munities huvinfi^ mod<!rii pliinibing regulutif^riH, cxihf in ofbouses, into wliieli (bey werv; iiid-odneed ;it a time win ii lli<y w*!re re-jrarded us ubsobilcly \)i\v[\\v\.. The Pan Closet.—Tbe prineiple of tins uppurutus is sliown in V\, wbieb is u vertieul section of tb(! working purt of tbc , freefrom tbc cubinct work in wbicb it is usiiully enclosed. It conHiHts ofu boj)j)er //, provided witb u flusbitig rim und elos(;d ut its outlet byttieans of a binged patj P, wbicb is releiis(!(l by a wJjicb it Fio. Pan closet. is unnecessary to illustrate or explain. WTien the pan is in the hori-zontal position, it is partly filled with water, into which the excretaare discharged, although ordinarily they come in contact first with thesurface of the hopper above the water level. The closet is emptiedby pulling a knob or handle which releases the pan, which then takesthe position shown in the figure by the dotted lines. The contentsare thus thrown into the lower chamber, and fall into the trap mechanism which releases the pan also starts a flush of waterthrough the flushing rim over the surface of the hopper. This flushis supposed to scour the interior and to be sufficiently voluminous todrive the excreta over the bend of the trap and forward toward thesoil-pipe. When the pan is brought back to its original plac^, theflush continues until the pan is filled to the same level as before. As a matter of fact, the
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