Fire-places and Kitchen Utensils. 219 



Description of the new Kitchen in the Military 

 Hospital at Munich. 



PLATE XII., FIGS. 10 AND n, AND PLATE XIII., FIG. 12. 



The mass of brick-work in which the boilers, the 

 roaster, the stewpans, etc., are set, occupies one corner 

 of the kitchen, extending 1 \\ feet on one side of the 

 room, and 13 feet 7 inches on the other. The greatest 

 width of the mass of brick-work (from A to B, or from 

 C to D) is 50! inches, and its height from the floor 

 36 inches. The circular area (E, Figs. 9 and 10) in the 

 angle of the mass of brick-work is 6 feet 8 inches in 

 diameter; and it is raised one easy step, or about 5 inches, 

 above the level of the floor of the room. There is an 

 open chimney fire-place of a peculiar form (F, Fig. 10) 

 in the corner of this kitchen, the hearth of which is on 

 a level with, or rather makes a part of the upper surface 

 of, the mass of brick-work. The side-walls of this open 

 chimney fire-place are hollow (see G and H, Fig. 10), 

 and serve as canals for carrying off the smoke from the 

 boilers into a chimney, which is situated quite in the 

 corner of the room. These canals open into the chimney 

 about 15 inches above the level of the mantel. 



The smoke goes off from each fire-place by two 

 separate and very narrow horizontal canals into larger 

 common canals (see I and K, Fig. 9), which conducts 

 it to the chimney ; and the openings of these narrow 

 canals are occasionally closed more or less by means of 

 small pieces of brick or of earthen-ware, which serve 

 instead of dampers, but which are not expressed in the 

 plates. The fires all burn on flat grates, composed of 

 bricks or thin tiles set edgewise. To save expense, the 



