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external door from the open air. When it is detached from 

 the house every facility of access to it should be afforded One 

 often sees the E.G. situated at a considerable distance from the 

 cottage without any convenience of approach, and this must 

 involve much inconvenience and discomfort in wet weather or 

 when there is snow on the ground. It should be borne in 

 mind that the E.G. may have to be used by aged people 

 and invalids, so it is in every way desirable that it should 

 be approached under cover. This may perhaps be economically 

 contrived by planning it at a distance of 10 ft. from the 

 house, and the coal shed, with a width of about 3 ft., in the 

 intervening space, with its roof extended over a 3 ft. 

 causeway from the house to the E.G. door. A length of 10 ft. 

 is l)y no means too great for the shed, as it will be used 

 for storing wood and tools, pigmeal, &c., as well as coal. The 

 walls of the shed, not being exposed to the weather, might 

 well be of a very light timber construction if any saving 

 could be effected thereby. 



When the coal house is under the main roof and economy 

 has to be very strictly studied, a Yorkshire board roof as used 

 in farm buildings might be put over the causeway to the E.G. 

 This would only require three light beams as supports at the 

 eaves and ridge, and a small quantity of creosoted grooved 

 Yorkshire boarding could probably be obtained locally. The 

 boards should be laid to a square pitch, ^ in. apart, resting on 

 hobnails where they are fixed to the timbers. This might be a 

 good arrangement for pairs of cottages, where the E.G.'s are 

 placed side by side with a dividing fence between them and 

 the houses. 



Where the E.G. will probably be used by children a self- 

 acting apparatus operated by weight on the seat would appear 

 to be the most preferable type. 



The covered way will be a convenient place for keeping the 

 sanitary dust-bin, which should be kept dry in order that its 

 contents may not become offensive, and when a pump is 

 required for a well or underground rainwater tank it can 

 also be placed there with advantage. 



The l^edrotmi plan is usually conveniently arranged and 

 does not call for much comment. The requirements of the 

 rural cottager in this respect are much the same as those of the 

 town dweller, and there is not the same difficulty in meeting 

 them as exists in urban districts, where the conditions imposed 

 by narrow sites, and the frequent impossibility of side lighting, 

 often render it very difficult to secure rooms of convenient shape 

 with adequate light. The Report of the Departmental Com- 

 mittee sums up tlie main points to be observed in the planning 

 of bedroom«, and they need not be repeated here. One point 



