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Title: Text-book of hygiene; a comprehensive treatise on the principles and practice of preventive medicine from an American stand-point
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Rohé, George H. (George Henry), 1851-1899
Subjects: Hygiene
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, F. A. Davis
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 9.—The Dececo Closet. (New Form.) The wash-out closets are of various shapes, some havingthe trap in the bowl itself, others having a double water-trap.They are generally simple in construction, and not likely to getout of order. They do not present any decided advantages overthe simple hopper, although at the present time they are moreused than any other form of closet. Of the recent improvementsin this form of closet may be mentioned the A. G. M.,^ shown * Manufactured by the Myers Sanitary Depot, New York. 170 TEXT-BOOK OF HYGIENE.
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Fig. 10.—The A. G. M. Closet. HOUSE-DRAINAGE. 171 in view with cistern in Fig. 10, and in section in Fig. 11, andthe • Dececo, Fig. 9, invented by Col. George E. Waring.In the latter the automatic siphon principle, so ingeniously usedby Rogers Field in the construction of the automatic flush-tank,is appUed to the scouring of a water-closet. Practical experi-ence for six or seven years has demonstrated the great usefulnessof this closet. If the dehvery of water from the flushing-cisternis properly regulated, at first rapid to thoroughly wash out the

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