Practical sanitation ; a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others interested in sanitation ... with an appendix on sanitary law by Herbert Manley.

  • Reid, George.
Date:
1901
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    therefore be described, but with the assistance of the accompany- in sketches (Fi£,'s. 19-22) the reader will be able to appreciate -the advantages, both as regards heating power and economy of fire-places constructed in accordance with the rules just laid down. . The Staffordshire fire-place (Fig. 19) is sometimes met with in old houses, although in many cases they have been abolished in favour of the modern and singularly inartistic <:ast-iron, hollow-back grate. Where in use, the combustion —PLAN.— Fig. 20. and heating power is excellent, and the economy in coal, as compared with the wasteful consumption of the cast-iron grate, is suiBcient soon to repay the very moderate outlay that is entailed in substituting the one for the other. The appearance presented by the plain fire-brick sides, which to some may be objectionable, can easily be overcome by their being faced with tiles. It will be noticed that the bars project some distance in front, and thus a larger radiating surface is exposed. In the old pattern of this grate the fire stands at a distance of some