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Title: Sanitary engineering : a guide to the construction of works of sewerage and house drainage, with tables for facilitating the calculations of the engineer
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Latham, Baldwin, d. 1917
Subjects: Sewerage Sewage Drainage, Sanitary
Publisher: London New York : E. & F.N. Spon
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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f this form was constructed in 1846,and erected in the yard of the Sewers Office, GreekStreet, Soho, from designs of Mr. John Phillips, C.E.The urinal had vertical slate divisions and slopingslates fitted between the divisions, with projecting lipsfor the persons using the urinal, so as to prevent anydripping on the floor. Trough urinal. Fig. 15 is a section of a very old form of urinal,consisting simply of a cast-iron trough which passesthrough a range of stalls. This form has been super-seded by the form shown in Fig. 16. stall urinal. Fig. 16 and 16a represent the elevation and section of a stall urinal, as very generally adopted at railwaystations. The fender-piece F is intended to preventthe splashing which takes place in some other forms ofurinal when used. This fender-piece does not reachthe floor. A space is left below for drainage, so that Urinal erectedin 1846,designed byMr. J. Phillips BALDWIN- LATHAMS SAX ITAR Y E X GIX E E RL\ G PLATES HUT. TOOLS USED IN CLEANSING SEWERS.
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GULLEY TOOLS- LoiKlon; EJ.F.M.Sr.-n, 46,Ci; Thomafi Ivli.liLb URINALS. 539 every part of the urinal may occasionally be washeddown, and any water and urine dripping on to the floorwould find its way to the gutter. The fender-pieces often become the source of a very Fender-piecesserious nuisance as they seldom or never get cleansed, ° umals-and the consequence is that the continued fall of urineupon them, without either water to fall them ormeans of cleansing, causes them to create a frightfulnuisance, and every urinal is better and much sweeterwithout these fender-pieces. Fig. 17 is a representation of a section of a urinaldesigned by the author. An open grating is providedfor the feet, and below this grating is an inclined floor,which is washed down by water from a distributingpipe. The urinal may have a continuous or inter-mittent action for the flow of water. In the arrange-ment of the apparatus for distributing water every partof the urinal should be washed. In many urinals thedi

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