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water used ; and the more luxurious it is, the greater the demands for an 

 unHmited amount of water in the kitchen, laundry, bath-room, and around 

 the yard. It is therefore not easy to say exactly how much water is 

 needed in any house, even if the number of persons living in it is known, 

 unless the standards of living are also known. Records of water con- 

 sumption in Boston and Worcester show that the amount of water use;l 



Fig. 316. — The shed lean-to containing the bath, closet and lavatory 



shown in Fig. 315. 



per head per day varies from seven gallons, when there is only one faucet 

 in the house, to fifty-nine gallons in the most fashionable of high-cost 

 city homes. Probably with the ordinary amount of plumbing, viz. — hot 

 and cold water in the kitchen, hot and cold water in the laundry, together 

 with a bath-room completely furnished, — the average consumption of an 



