Gas-heated Baths.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 10, 1 August 1906, Page 269

Gas-heated Baths.

The employment of gas for rapidly heating the water for baths has, according to the Gesund-heits-Ingenieur of June ij, made great progress in the past 20 years, but many fatal accidents have arisen owing to improper arrangement of the apparatus. Mr. Schafer has found that in Germany alone 11 deaths have been caused in the past 12 years by faulty construction of heating apparatus, while in 17 cases the accidents did not prove fatal. By reference to diagrams a number of designs are given to indicate arrangements for fixing the gas-heater out of the bath room altogether, either on the floor above, or in a room beneath, or by a very simple modification of the heating apparatus it may be placed on the same level as the bath room, but in another apartment. It is pointed out that by one or the other of the above systems much greater security for life, health, and property can be secured at a very small additional expenditure.

The rails of the Mexican Gulf Railway are laid on mahogany sleepers, and the bridges built oj white marble. In West Mexico is a line with ebony sleepers and ballast of silver ore drawn from old mines beside the track. The engineers constructing these railways had no material on the route, and found it cheaper to use precious materials than to import the ordinary kind.