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Title: The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Weale, John, 1791-1862
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Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ed by Mr. Baly. No 1. is the elevation of the Westminster Parochial Establishment, the most recentlyerected. Its style is plain and bold; simple, but conveying the idea of ipublic building erected with a view to durability and utility. It contains64 Baths and 60 Wash-tubs, and 2 Plunge Baths; and, including the purichase of the site, will cost 13,000£. No. 2 is a view of a woman at a wash-tub; and of a woman, having washed heclothes, hanging them up to dry. No. 3 and No. 3 *, showing the linen in the drying chamber, heated by hot-watepipes, immediately above the wash-tub, as well as a woman hanging up fodrying previous to sending them to the drying chamber, as at St. Martins No. 4. Section through the ironing chambers. No. 5 is the general ground plan of the Westminster establishment:— A. The boiler room, where the water is heated for the baths and wash-tubs.The chimney and the ventilating flues, which carry off the vapour and forair from the bath rooms. M. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES 259
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l.i ■ 11111 ■ <) b and 0. The second-class men and womens waiting rooms and baths. d. The first-class mens baths and waiting room. The first-class womens baths are in an adjoining house, and not shown on this plan.f. The first-class plunge bath and dressing rooms.G. The second-class plunge bath and dressing rooms. The baths will contain respectively 20,000 and 40,000 gals, of water, will be 3± ft. deep at one end, gradually increasing to the depth of 5 ft. at the other.H and 1 are the washing tub and boiling tub, for the women washing, and are supplied with cold and hot water, and steam.K. The ironing boards.L. The drying chamber, heated by flues; the temperature of which, when in full work, will be maintained at above 200°.N. The situation of the wringing machines, by the use of which the wet linen is deprived, by a small expenditure of time and labour, of above half its water before being put into the drying chamber. 6 and No. 6*. The section of the building through the was

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