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sixteen feet front by twenty-eight feet depth , and gardens of the same size . Thus every dwelling would be provided with its separate garden , overlooked by none , § uidwith its hall-door opening into a covered gallery , pleasantly warmed and lighted , and in proximate communication with every needful arrangement for the supply of the bodily wants .
The internal economy of these dwellings would be very simple . Chimneys would not be required , inasmuch as no cookery would take place in them , and the warming would be by means of hotwater pipes , the very best means of communicating heat without any unpleasant effects . These pipes might form the skirtings of the walls , sinking beneath the floor at the doorways , and thus all ugliness of appearance would be avoided . For those who required more heat , or , rather , who preferred to see it , gas-jets might be contrived . As then , hot-water pipes would be in all the apartments , and as cold water would be supplied in the same manner , every one could help themselves , without the aid of servants , to
as much as they required , and moreover have it instantl y hot at any period , day or night . The mode of drawing it should be not by the ordinary turning cocks , which would permit careless people to waste , but by spring cocks , which would run so long as the pressure of the finger were applied and close when it might be removed . Arrangements would of course be made to shut off all but a small quantity when warmth was not required . Indexes of the quantity used might also be arranged , in order that the
economist might not be put upon a level with the extravagant person . The furniture of these dwellings must also be the property of the landlord , for the expense and waste of moving and removing furniture is one of the great curses of our dwellings . Thus the furniture would be of a quality and style to correspond with the general appearance of the dwelling , and nothing would be out of taste , as so often happens , when the furniture made for one dwelling is taken to another of a different kind . In such dwellings , every portion of which , staircases and lobbies , as well as apartments , might always be at one temperature , curtained beds would not be required ; and it would be desirable , above all things , to get rid of the nuisance of feather-beds . They are unwholesome at the best of times , and in the troublesome act of making they fill the house with dust . Hair-mattresses are far more wholesome , straw-palliasses still better ; but for those who are anxious to lie soft , Dr . Arnott ' s water-beds offer at once a substitute both cheaper and more economic of labour , as they always make themselves by the water finding its level . All the bedroo ms , or the lobby adjoining them , should be provided with a small marble sink or basin , with a water-valve , down which waste
water might be thrown to find its way to the sewers , and which might also serve as a washing-stand . A spring-jet of warm water should be just above them to wash them clean , and all this would
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Housebuilding and Housekeeping . 577
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 577, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/47/
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