Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XV. AND LAST. Plastering without laths—Hygienic rock—Slag wool—Im- perishable stairs—Doors that will shut—Doors that will open — Anti-coroner windows — Tubbing in excelsis — Artful ventilation—Washable walls — Paper without poisoning—Sinks—A word to water-drinkers. JUST in time for our second edition, comes the big Health Show at South Kensington, with its little crop of novelties in the sanitary and hygienic way, of the cream of which we will just give a spoonful for the benefit of our readers. Not a very large spoonful; for, to confess the truth, the novelties in this line are far from numerous. Novelties, that is to say, of real practical value ; which arc the only novelties with which we need at present concern ourselves. Of beautiful new patents for doing what should not be done, in the way in which you should not do it, there is as plentiful a crop as all occasions of this kind are pretty certain to call forth. Of practical novelties, we may, starting of course from the out- side of things,—take first the invention of Mr.