. Sanitary engineering : a guide to the construction of works of sewerage and house drainage, with tables for facilitating the calculations of the engineer. properly laidand jointed, with a fall of not less than 1 inch in 5feet. It should be added that in Bristol where the WATER-CLOSETS. 517 arrangement can be made, the rain-water pipes andthe yard drains are made to communicate with theejects so as to secure the flushing action of rainfall andof the house slops. In Mr. J. Netten Kadcliffes report, of December, Mr. J. N. Rad-1874, from which the author has made the quotations Jn Bristol01*in r
. Sanitary engineering : a guide to the construction of works of sewerage and house drainage, with tables for facilitating the calculations of the engineer. properly laidand jointed, with a fall of not less than 1 inch in 5feet. It should be added that in Bristol where the WATER-CLOSETS. 517 arrangement can be made, the rain-water pipes andthe yard drains are made to communicate with theejects so as to secure the flushing action of rainfall andof the house slops. In Mr. J. Netten Kadcliffes report, of December, Mr. J. N. Rad-1874, from which the author has made the quotations Jn Bristol01*in reference to the Bristol closet, it is mentioned that successful working of these closets is due to thevery careful inspection instituted by the sanitaryauthority, and to the fact that the sanitary authoritylook after and cleanse the closets. The Inspectors ofNuisances at Bristol have under them men who attendto these closets, and who are armed with a speciesof two - pronged iron rake, used for the purpose ofclearing blocked ejects. The tumbler water-closet has been used in sometowns. Fig. 165 represents the plan, and Fig. 166 the Fig. section of tumbler closets as used in Leeds. Mr. J. Leeds tumbler Netten Radcliffe, in his report, of December, 1874, Kdclifc^* says that in Leeds, This form of closets is, in fact, now , as wasteful of water and difficult to keep in order. The same gentleman, when reporting Tumbler closet on a similar class of closets as used at Birkenhead, made at Birkenhead° 2 M 518 WATER-CLOSETS. the following suggestions as to the construction andarrangement of the tumbler closet. 1st. The tumbler, of iron, cast in one piece, and Fig. 166.
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