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rians and sanitary engineers. As has been seen, the proprietor of the 

 Heath House, at his own instance, placed his plumbing fixtures in an 

 annex. 



C. and W. Leland, Jr., proprietors of the Ocean Hotel, Long Branch, 

 announce that " none of the sleeping apartments have water, nor are 

 they connected in any way with water or drainage pipes." Drs. Hunt 

 and Hughes, recognized sanitary experts, have examined the premises, 

 and certify that they regard the arrangements " as a sample of sanitary 

 completeness." The same thing has been done in the lately added 

 portion of one of the largest and most popular hotels in this city, 

 namely, the Sturtevant House ; and, about a year since, the Fifth 

 Avenue Hotel " changed the pipe-basins of about fifty of its best 

 rooms for basins with pitchers, to avoid any possibility of comjdaints 

 on the score of sewer-gas." 



Mr. George Harding, of Philadelphia, has erected a very large and 

 elegant hotel on the Catskill Mountains the "Hotel Kaaterskill" 

 which is said to have no rival in its construction and completeness, 

 but in which there are no stationary basins, and the plumbing is con- 

 fined to the rear end of the building. 



A gentleman is now constructing a handsome residence in Fifth 

 Avenue, and he informs me that, recognizing fully the danger from 

 sewer-gas, he has placed all those fixtures which he proposes to use at 

 the rear end of his house. He has, however, extended his plumbing 

 throughout his house, because in the case of his death the house may 

 be sold, and some might object to it if it did not contain all of the 

 " modern improvements " ; but he has made arrangements to cut off 

 completely all of the plumbing except that which is in the rear of the 

 house, and in this condition it will remain so long as it is occupied by 

 his family. 



Mr. John Honeyman, while defending architects from the charge 

 of incapacity made by the doctors, says in the London "Architect," 

 that they were " among the first to point out the dangers arising from 

 the general introduction of water-closets." 



" The Sanitary Engineer," describing the " sanitary appliances " in 

 the elegant mansion of W. II. Vanderbilt, recently constructed in Fifth 

 Avenue, says, "As for stationary wash-hand-basins, they are almost 

 unknown, there being but two in the whole house one in a dressing- 

 room or retiring-room off the billiard-room, and one in a pi'ivate bath- 

 room." 



Indeed, stationary basins are now excluded from many of the most 

 fashionable hotels in the country, and, if I am correctly informed, 

 from several public and private houses in this city which I have not 

 mentioned ; although most of them continue the more objectionable 

 practice of having the water-closets in the same building with their 

 guests and their families. 



The " Medical Record " for July 8, 1882, contains a letter from Dr. 



