By Mr. William Hogan. 



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on the 18th of March, 1823, suggested that instead of forming 

 the bed upon stakes and hurdles, a sort of frame work might 

 be used, which he proposes, should be constructed with bent 

 iron rods one inch and a half in circumference, and placed six 

 inches apart, each end being let into bars, one to be fixed 

 on the floor, the other against the wall, the whole forming an 

 half-arch, the radius of which might be from two to three feet 

 according to the space required underneath the bed ; the 

 bed to be made over the whole surface of the iron-work, and 

 the dung to be put in under it. The bars might be covered 

 with wove iron lattice work, the meshes of which should be 

 so small as to prevent the substances, used in making the 

 bed, falling into the cavity, and mixing with the hot dung. 



