. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . ble is absolutely essential, the maintenance of an evenand moderately warm temperature is also a matter of great importance. In a \rell drained, well paved, well ventilated, and cleanly kept stable the tempera-ture may generally be maintained at from 50 to 60°. Some regard should be paid to the state of the external atmosphere—with, the ther-mometer, for instance, at zero out of door
. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . ble is absolutely essential, the maintenance of an evenand moderately warm temperature is also a matter of great importance. In a \rell drained, well paved, well ventilated, and cleanly kept stable the tempera-ture may generally be maintained at from 50 to 60°. Some regard should be paid to the state of the external atmosphere—with, the ther-mometer, for instance, at zero out of doors a stable would be injudiciously warm atfrom 50° to 60°, although that temperature may be taken as a fair average for mostseasons of the year. Prices op Above 9x5i 10ix7| 14x9 18x12 Fig. 199. s. 0 11 0 12 0 s. 0 16 0 17 0 s. 0]8 020 0 s. O Japanned bronze 40 0 42 0 Made also japaned white and gold, with brass trellis fronts. Fig. 200, mounted in iron frame to screw to Avail, in 13s. 6d. each. Ditto ditto Doube size, lower panes, fixed 33x22 ... 20s. „ Fig. 201, complete wiih couuterpoise ..,.,.. „ 15s. „ 170 Use of Air Shaftsin Ventilating, VENTILATION EY AIH It would serve no purpose to enlarge upon this head, as ventilationby air shafts is so well understood. They are eminently satisfactory•under certain conditions. A convenient example is given at Fig. 202,which exhibits Messrs. Musgraves patent system of stable the stable at A, through the valvular ventilator figured byus at Fig 200, and striking along the ceiling, the fresh air drives alongbefore it the heated and breathed air of the horses, through the ceilingventilating outlet which we gave at Fig. 201, into a horizontal air-chamber, which runs along the floor of hay-loft, and receives thevitiated air of all the stables. The outlet is at the roof at B, andthese outlets are prepared to receive the foul air shafts. A moreornamental outlet, with vane, o
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