Text-book of hygiene; a comprehensive treatise on the principles and practice of preventive medicine from an American stand-point . Fig. 11. Fig. 12. Fig. 11.—Pull-up Handle Commode, Showing the Door Open forRemoving Pail. The flap of the seat and earth reservoir are alsopartially raised to show the construction. Fig. 12.—Showing the Apparatus Mounted on Bearers as whenFixed. Seat removed, showing mechanical arrangement. or ashes. The earth-closet is the invention of the Eev. HenryMoule, of England, and consists of an ordinary commode or closet,the essential feature of which is a reservoir con
Text-book of hygiene; a comprehensive treatise on the principles and practice of preventive medicine from an American stand-point . Fig. 11. Fig. 12. Fig. 11.—Pull-up Handle Commode, Showing the Door Open forRemoving Pail. The flap of the seat and earth reservoir are alsopartially raised to show the construction. Fig. 12.—Showing the Apparatus Mounted on Bearers as whenFixed. Seat removed, showing mechanical arrangement. or ashes. The earth-closet is the invention of the Eev. HenryMoule, of England, and consists of an ordinary commode or closet,the essential feature of which is a reservoir containing dried earthor ashes, a quantity of which, amounting to about twice the quantityof feces voided, is thrown upon the evacuation either by hand or bymeans of an automatic apparatus called a chucker. Just as inthe ordinary water-closet, by raising a handle a supply of water isthrown into a hopper to wash down the feces into the soil-pipe, so, inthe usual form of the earth-closet, raising the handle projects a quan- 12 178 TEXT-BOOK OF HYGIENE. tity of earth upon the evacuated feces and urine. By this means theexcreta
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