. Public health and preventive medicine. width of thebuilding. At least one-half the site should not be built upon at all, and anycourt or yard should be properly paved and drained. Where possible, anoutside staircase should be provided, but an excellent alternative plan is tobreak up an internal staircase by bringing it out upon balconies at the levelof each storey, and in its intermediate parts providing openings to the externalair, either in the shape of windows or permanently open outlooks. Aventilating skylight should be placed in the roof at the top of the house doors shou
. Public health and preventive medicine. width of thebuilding. At least one-half the site should not be built upon at all, and anycourt or yard should be properly paved and drained. Where possible, anoutside staircase should be provided, but an excellent alternative plan is tobreak up an internal staircase by bringing it out upon balconies at the levelof each storey, and in its intermediate parts providing openings to the externalair, either in the shape of windows or permanently open outlooks. Aventilating skylight should be placed in the roof at the top of the house doors should open directly on the stair landings, or preferably onthe balconies, where such exist. The staircase should be of stone or should be as wide as possible. As regards the separate houses, each roommust have a window opening directly to the external air, and such window-should be carried up nearly to the ceiling, and made to open top and lobbies should be avoided, but, if present, may be ventilated by a fan-. 0O 7. — 4i6 SANITARY ENGINEERING light placed over the external door. On an average, rooms should contain1500 cubic ft. of spare, kitchens and living-rooms being somewhat larger thanbedrooms. A good plan is to have external meat safes, ami to do away aemuch as possible with the storage of food inside the rooms. No room must be -without a fireplace, which is t »ften placed so as to economise space at the expense of the heating power of the tire. Where water-closets are provided,each should communicate directly by a window with the external air, andbe so placed as not to ventilate into rooms. In Plate XI., which representsa plan of workmens tenements recently erected in Edinburgh, there arefour closets to six houses of two rooms each. A study of the figure showsthat the placing of houses back to back has been carefully avoided, while it ispossible to obtain a free perflation of air right through the block if doors andwindows be opened. Stairs a
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