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GLOSSAEY.
is enclosed on every side. Some of them were sunk some way into the ground. It also
is a term applied to
subterranean or dark passages and galleries in the liomau villas,
often used as cool sitting rooms.
]uBB. (Gr. KujSos, a die.) A solid bounded by six square sides. It is also, from its six
sides, called hexahedron.
JuBic FEET (as the quantity necessary to be allowed for health under varying circum-
stances). Prom 60 to 100 feet superficial is recommended for each bed. It is sbited
that a healthy man respires about twenty times in a minute, and inhales in that period
about 700 cubic inches of air. Fresh air contains rather more than 23 per cent, of
oxygen, and about
1
5
per cent, of carbonic acid ; by the process of respiration the
oxygen is reduced, in round numbers, to 11 per cent., and the carbonic acid is increased
to rather more than 8 per cent. Now,
3j
per cent, of this gas renders air unfit to sup-
port life; so that a man, in respiring
7i'0
cubic inches in a minute, vitiates about 1630
cubic inches, without taking into account the eflect produced by the exhalation from the
skin.
ever Ilospital, Islington, allows
Cubic Feet.
J
2:i00 per bed.
( 2010
. 1500
Children J
f
"^/?
^."^ff
I
double beds
Cubic Feet.
Cells, for a woman with children,
54 feet ditto .... 640 per bed,
Ordinary dormitories, 3G ditto . 3(i0
Sick wards, CO ditto . . .600
LyiuK-iu, Offensive, or Infectious
wards, 80 ditto . . . .900
Dormito ies
;
wall space for each bed,
in addition to that occupied by dool"s
or fire-places
:

inmates in health
; adults 4 feet
women with infants . . 5
n
5

Pick ; ordinary, itch, and venereal 6

Ditto, lying-in, offensive, fever

and smali-po.x cases . . 8

In registered Lodging Houses of Lon-

don, Dublin, &c. . . 240 to .300

In modern Gaols . . 900 to 1000

Surrey County Prison, each cell .819

Knutsford House of Correction, ditto 910

Manchester City Prison, ditto . . 844

Lunatic Asylums in Scotland, gal-
leries COO

Ditto, single rooms .... lOO'l

Ditto, in some crowded asjlums 2 in 900

Ditto, Devon, bedrooms . . . 470

Ditto, Commissioners recommended . 550

Ditto, Lanark 800

Ditto, private in Scotland . 200 to
3n0

Cow Sheds, Holboru Board of Health
1
1000
The Cattle Plague broke out in Sheds
allowing but 450
It has been lately calculated that the average
space allowed to each person in London is 1220
square feet, while in Paris it is only 500 ditto.
per
animal.
amp at Aldershot
eneral Hosiiital, Bristol . . . 1090

ariboisiere Hospital at Paris 1700 to 1860

inceunes Hospital . . 1200 tj 1334

orough Hospital, Birkenhead . . 1430

Dldiers' Hospital, Netley 1315, 1406, ISOO

Herbert Hospital, Woolwich . . 1400

ecently prescribed for Militai'y Hos-
pitals by the English Barrack and
Hospital Commissionersiu Great
Britain 1200
itto, in hot climates . . . 1500
itto, in wooden hospitals, tents, and
in permanent barracks . 400 to COO
illinium allowance for health in a
sitting-room SOOprindiv.
Meeting of Medical Officers had
decided was sufficient in dwellhig
houses 300
ondon Hospital, smallest allowed . 800 per bed
'estminster Hospital . . . .1100
niversity College Hospital . .1100
iddlesex Hospital . . . .1100
:. Bartholomew's Hospital , .1377
3ndon Hospital 1700
ny's Hopital . . . 1300 to 2000

irig's College Hospital . 1800 to 2068

'orkhouse hospitals iu London, for
ordinary sick 850
itto, special or offensive cases . . 1200

itto, ordinary wards for the infirm,
&c 500
ard space, as near as may be to 2000
with 144 square feet of floor,
resent reqiiiruments
:

Vagrant wards, cells, ordinary,

36 feet of floor space, and . . SCO
UBicuLUM. (Lat.) A chamber. A distinction is made by Pliny between the cuhiculum
and the dormitorium. The name was also applied to the royal pavilion or tent which
was built in the circus or amphitheatre for the reception of tlae emperors.
UBiT.
A linear measure, in ancient architecture, equal to the length of the arm from
the elbow to the extremity of the mi.Idle finger, usually considered about eighteen
English inches. The geometrical cubit of Vitruvius was equal to six ordinary cubits.
Mr. Perring, in 1843, calculated the Egyptian cubit at
1"713 English feet, divided into
four palms each of seven digits. The cubit, in the survey, etc., of the Uoly Land,
was assumed
(1875)
at 21 inches. See Mj^asurb.
UL DE Four. (Fr.) A low vault spherically formed on a circular or oval plan.
An
oven-shaped vault.
ui.MEN. In ancient Roman architecture, the ridge-piece of the roof.
ULVEET. An arched channel of masonry or brickwork built bei>eath the bed of a
canal
for the purpose of conducting water under it. If the water to be conveyed has nearly
the same level as the canal, the culvert is built in the form of an inverted siphon,
and
acts on the principle of a water-pipe. The Avord also signifies any arched channel
for
water under ground.
ULVER-TAIL.
The Same as Dove-tail.
ONiius. (Lat.) That part of the Roman theatre where the spectntors sat.
u ['HOARD. A receptacle whether a recess iu a wall or otherwise, and fitted
with
ehulves, for small articles. See Closet.