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Spons' Household Manual by E. & F. N. Spon

6. Do not give vent to the fire by breaking into the house

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unnecessarily from without, or, if an inmate, by opening doors or windows. Make a point of shutting every door after you as you go through the house. For this purpose, doors enclosing the staircase are very useful. _Accidents to Persons._--1. Upon discovering yourself on fire reflect that your greatest danger arises from draught to the flames, and from their rising upwards. Throw yourself on the ground, and roll over on the flame, if possible, on the rug or loose drugget, which drag under you; the table-cover, a man’s coat, anything of the kind at hand, will serve your purpose. Scream for assistance, ring the bell, but do not run out of the room or remain in an upright position.
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1. Chapter 1 2. 1. Rubber cushions under the legs of the work-bench. _Chambers’s 3. 2. Kegs of sand or sawdust applied in the same way. A few inches 4. introduction of spongy-iron filter beds at the Antwerp waterworks. 5. 24. The sewage flows into the air chamber formed by the half-open 6. 2. In the absence of a fire-escape, or pending its arrival, ladders 7. 3. In a narrow street or court assistance may be given from the 8. 4. When no other means present themselves the bystanders had better 9. 5. Do not give vent to the fire by breaking into the house 10. 2. Inmates at the first alarm should endeavour calmly to reflect what 11. 3. In the midst of smoke it is comparatively clear towards the 12. 4. In the event of being unable to escape either by the street-door 13. 5. Persons thus circumstanced are entreated not to precipitate 14. 6. Do not give vent to the fire by breaking into the house 15. 2. Persons especially exposed to a risk of their dresses taking fire 16. 3. As a means for the prevention of accidents, especially where there 17. 1884. 2_s._ 6_d._ 18. 71. The well-known “Eagle” Patent Adjustable Bottom Grate, for

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