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Title: Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Starbuck, Robert Macy, 1844-
Subjects: Plumbing
Publisher: New York, The N. W. Henley Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of hotels, for instance, which are provided with poor light and 128 MODERN PLUMBING ILLUSTRATED no ventilation, is great in comparison with the atmosphere of manyof our modern, well-appointed toilet rooms of hotels, etc. It has become a matter of good business to make special effortand outlay in securing proper ventilation for toilet rooms of publicbuildings, for the public has become educated to the point where theywill patronize only those establishments that look after these points. On the larger work it often becomes necessary to secure greatermotive power for ventilating purposes than the heated flue is able tofurnish. For this purpose fans are largely employed, connected as shownin Fig. D. Usually an exhaust fan is used to withdraw the foul air,and another fan to supply fresh air to the fresh-air ducts. This class of work will be taken up again in connection with thesubject of public toilet rooms, as also the local venting of urinals. Plate XIX BATH ROOMS P/oU /9. 27S022S Veizf
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7?§ oi 73 Veiz /- BATH ROOMS \\iTE( the advent of modern fixtures and modern methods, thebath room of to-day may become, with a comparatively small outlay,a room of great beauty, and when it may be installed regardless ofcost, it may become a place of almost marvelous beauty. No other part of the plumbing system so fully illustrates themany advantages which the open-plumbing system has over theclosed or sheathed-in system. No one attempts to make a comparison of the old-time sheathed-in bath-room work with that of the present day, as far as beauty andartistic effect are concerned. Furthermore, the open system is farmore sanitary. When plumbing fixtures were sheathed in, neither light nor aircould circulate about them, with the result that there was constantlya musty, if not foul, odor present. The sheathing absorbed more orless moisture and filth from the careless use of the fixtures, and therewas abundant opportunity for the collection of dirt in crevices andcorners in the use of sh

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