A hospital slop sink is shown in Fig. 155. The bowl of the sink is shaped like a closet bowl converging toward the outlet which is large and unobstructed by a strainer. The sink is flushed through a flushing rim, a, from a tank overhead or from a vimometer valve, and is also supplied with hot and cold water through a combination cock, b. The slop sink is also fitted with a cleansing jet, c, to which the water may be turned on by hand valves at the back of the sink or by the foot valves, d, on the floor. The nurse or orderly empties the contents of a bed-pan on the right side of the sink which is flushed from the tank, the bed-pan is then inverted and held over the cleansing jet in the left side of the bowl to be washed.

Fig. 156