Hygiene and public healthP. Blakiston, 1889 - 471 pages |
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... inch drain laid the wrong way for want of diminishing pipe . 138 30. Sink with double trapped waste pipe • 31. Disconnection trap with outlet higher than the inlet 32. Hinckes - Bird's window ventilator 139 140 232 33. Tobin's tube with ...
... inch drain laid the wrong way for want of diminishing pipe . 138 30. Sink with double trapped waste pipe • 31. Disconnection trap with outlet higher than the inlet 32. Hinckes - Bird's window ventilator 139 140 232 33. Tobin's tube with ...
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... inches per annum . Throughout the remainder of England the average is from 30 to 40 inches per annum , with very much larger amounts in the mountainous and hilly districts of Devonshire , Wales , Cumberland , and Westmoreland ( 60 to 200 ...
... inches per annum . Throughout the remainder of England the average is from 30 to 40 inches per annum , with very much larger amounts in the mountainous and hilly districts of Devonshire , Wales , Cumberland , and Westmoreland ( 60 to 200 ...
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Louis Coltman Parkes. This is the amount available from the rainfall - 30 inches - of an average year . It has been ... inch of rain delivers 4.673 gallons on every square yard , or 22,617 gallons ( 101 tons ) on each square acre . Rain ...
Louis Coltman Parkes. This is the amount available from the rainfall - 30 inches - of an average year . It has been ... inch of rain delivers 4.673 gallons on every square yard , or 22,617 gallons ( 101 tons ) on each square acre . Rain ...
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... inches . per annum ) , the amounts of rain that fall in summer and in winter are very nearly equal . But in the summer months ( April to September ) the amount of rain that percolates is very small ; it is only one - seventh of the ...
... inches . per annum ) , the amounts of rain that fall in summer and in winter are very nearly equal . But in the summer months ( April to September ) the amount of rain that percolates is very small ; it is only one - seventh of the ...
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... inches ) . The reason of this appears to be , that the soil ( chalk in this case ) is able to evaporate about 12 inches of rain in the 6 summer months . If the summer rainfall is much less than 12 inches , there is no percolation at all ...
... inches ) . The reason of this appears to be , that the soil ( chalk in this case ) is able to evaporate about 12 inches of rain in the 6 summer months . If the summer rainfall is much less than 12 inches , there is no percolation at all ...
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