. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. pally, for the reason that na^nl officershave greater facilities than others for the collec-tion of articles illustrating sanitary science aspracticed in other countries. The plan on which the museum is conductedcomprehends the collection of material whichshall illustrate the entire scope of sanitation, thedelivery of lectures by prominent sanitarians,and the maintenance oi a library accessible byall who are studying the subject. There are inthe library over 7,3CO volumes, including thestandard sanit
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. pally, for the reason that na^nl officershave greater facilities than others for the collec-tion of articles illustrating sanitary science aspracticed in other countries. The plan on which the museum is conductedcomprehends the collection of material whichshall illustrate the entire scope of sanitation, thedelivery of lectures by prominent sanitarians,and the maintenance oi a library accessible byall who are studying the subject. There are inthe library over 7,3CO volumes, including thestandard sanitary books in the English, Germanand French languages. There are on exhibition eight hundred differ-ent objects illustrating sanitary improvements inplumbing, lighting, heating, ventilation, water-supply, bedding, clothing, marine, house andhospital architecture, the disposal of refuse, thedisposal of the dead, and many other thingswhich affect the health. The idea in establishing this museum was notsimply to establish a place where sight-seerscould be entertained, but a bureau of which any. The figures 2, 2, represent the flues; 3, 3, theretorts; 5, the exhaust-pipe from the retorts; 6,the chimney. The dampers and blowers arealso shown. |sir>E SECTIONAL VIEW OF INCINERATING citizen of the country might ask advice concern-ing sanitary subjects. Two hundred and twenty articles representthe advance of sanitary engineering, includingthe drainage oi houses, sewerage of cities, of these show the improved inventions ofTHE MUSEUM OF HYGIENE. lhe present day, while others show the faulty At the corner of Eighteenth and G streets, in construction of past systems. One piece of leadthe city of Washington, there is a large double pipe, very much incrusted and foul, was takenresidence building known as the Edward Ever- from the Executive Mansion in 1880. Anotherett house, in which Jefferson Davis lived while piece of lead pipe,taken from the residence of
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