351; Furley's sick transport waggon, 351, 352; the Atkinson-Philipson
sick transport waggon, 353; infectious disease sick transport waggons,
353, 354; Crimean railway carriage of sick, 355; the younger Baron
Larrey's work in this direction, 355; Dr. Gurlt's efforts, 355, 356;
United States railway sick transport system, 356, 357; description of
Baron Mundy's organization of the Austrian Maltese Knights Order's
ambulance trains, 357-362; extemporised use of railway carriages for
sick transport, 363; Zavodovsky's system, 363, 364; Grund's system,
363, 364, 365; Count Beaufort's system, 364, 365; the Hamburg
system, 366, 367; civil railway sick transport systems, 367, 368; marine
ambulance arrangements, 369-380; various 'sailors' knots' used in
carrying wounded men, 369, 370; the ordinary navy cot, 370; the
Lowmoor jacket, 370; Macdonald's ambulance lift, 370-372; and
ambulance lowerer, 372; the Gorgas ambulance cot, 372, 373; ambu-
lance launches, 373-375; ambulance steamers, 375, 376; hospital ships,
376-380; paramount importance of good laundry arrangements, 378;
proposals for the more general use of huts and tents in infectious
disease, 381, 382; the English bell tent, 383; the hospital marquee,
383, 384; Indian tents, 384; American tents, 384, 385; the Tollet system
of tents, 386; the Docker felt hospital huts, 386, 387; concluding
remarks, 388
Anthrax, a fatal disease amongst cattle and sheep, 94; cause of fatal disease
in man, 95
Apoplexy, its symptoms and treatment, 241-243; frequently mistaken for
drunkenness, 233, 253, 291
Argentine Republic, outbreak of anthrax disease among cattle there, 136
Army Corps, its medical administration, 273, 274
Art, Schools of, their origin, history, work, and influence, 729–860; national
art tendencies in the past, 729-746; artistic instincts, 731, 732; early
English workmanship, 733, 734; gold and silver plate-embroideries,
734-736; tapestry-ivory carvings, 737, 738; sculpture-brasses—
architecture, 739, 740; the Reformation-maritime discovery, 741,
742; Charles the First's collection, 743; pottery-furniture, 745;
origin and development of Schools of Art, 746–819; State agency and
Art instruction, 747-749; the Scottish Board of Trustees, 749, 750; the
Dublin Society, 751; the Society of Arts, 751; the British Museum,
754; the Royal Academy, 755; the National Gallery, 755, 756; artists
and art manufactures, 757; the first Select Committee of the House of
Commons (1835), 758-764; foreign schools and English wants, 765; Mr.
Dyce's report on foreign schools, 765-769; establishment of Schools of
Design, 769; impetus given to English Art by the re-building of the Houses
of Parliament, 771, 772; Reports on the Schools of Design, 773; the second
Select Committee of the House of Commons (1849), 775-783; inspection
and reports on the provincial schools, 783-786; exhibition of the works
of students at Marlborough House, 786, 787; the Great Exhibition of 1851,
787-790; formation of the Department of Practical Art, 790–796; special
classes for technical instruction, 795, 796; the Museum of Manufactures at
Marlborough House, 797, 798; formation of the Department of Science
and Art, 798-800; art-teaching in elementary schools, 801; improve-
ment in art-manufactures demonstrated by the International Exhibition
of 1862, 802-804; changes in the system of payments, 804-806; the
third Select Committee of the House of Commons, 806-812; establish-
ment of night classes, 813; extension of aid for art instruction, 815;
present scope of the department, 817, 818; changes in the staff, 818;
work and influences of Schools of Art, 820-843; two systems contrasted,
821, 822; a new race of designers, 823, 824; defects in elementary
teaching, 825, 826; influences on manufactures, 827-833; elements of
technical teaching, 833, 834; the schools and the Fine Arts, 835; the
National Art Training School and National Scholarships, 836-838; the
South Kensington Museum, 839-843; intrinsic value of the collection,
840, 841; decoration of the Museum, 843; helps and hindrances to
Schools of Art, 844-853; local pecuniary aid, 844, 845; discouragement
of designers, 847; the National Competition, 849; over-production of
designers, 851, 852; visits of masters to foreign schools, 853; the Schools
of Art section of the International Health Exhibition, 854-860; Appen-
dices, 861-880; bibliography, 726
Art Training School (National), 836-838
Asphyxia, or suffocation, measures to be adopted, 250, 251
BACTERIA, their presence in beer, 54, 55
Ballard, Dr., outbreak of enteric fever in Islington, in 1870, traced by him, 114
Battle (Sussex), Lady Brassey's ambulance organization there, 298
Bayley, Messrs. E. H. and Co., hydrostatic-van constructed by them, 464
Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, in reference to sewage, 422
Bearer Company (divisional), its organization, 274-277
Beaufort (Count), system of stretcher-rests for sick-transport by means of
luggage waggons, 364, 365
Bell, Prof., the late, outbreak of enteric fever in St. Andrew's investigated by
him, in 1870, 115
Bites, directions for their treatment, 240
Bleckley, Dr., in reference to laundry arrangements for an army in active
service, 336; and as an essential part of the equipment of a hospital ship,
378, 380
Bleeding, how to stop, 190-209; from arteries in the thigh, 190-197; leg,
197-198; foot, 198; arm, 200, 201; wrist, 201-203; forearm, 203;
elbow or lower end of arm, 203; armpit, 203, 204; carotids, 204;
tongue, 204, 205; lips, 205; nose, 205, 206; face, 206; head, temple,
top or back of head, 206, 207; bleeding from veins, 207, 208; from
capillaries, 208, 209
Blood, its circulation, 183-185
Blot, M., mechanical street-sweeper as used in Paris, 483
Bokeberg, Herr E., (Hanover), experiments with reference to proportion of
vacuity to solid materials in a cubic yard of broken stone metalling, 403
Bones, invaluable as manure, 49
Boston (United States), system of scavengering, 486-493
Braidwood, Mr. James, his appointment to the London Fire Engine Esta-
blishment, 566
Brain, accidental injuries to it, 232-236; compression, 232-234; concussion,
234-236
Brassey, Lady, her ambulance organization in the Battle district of Sussex, 298
Brighouse (Yorkshire), its ambulance organization, 299
Broad Street (Golden Square) pump, cause of outbreak of cholera, 34, 104, 105
Buchanan, Dr., investigation of an outbreak of enteric fever at Caius College,
Cambridge, in 1873, 109, 110; tabulated statement as to small-pox death-
rates among Londoners, 139
Budd, Dr., the late, his investigations into the origin of diseases, 96
Burdon-Sanderson, Dr., 62; experiments with reference to disease-poisons, 99
Burial, 78-83; modern system, 78, 79; 'earth to earth' system, 79, 80, 81;
a plague pit of 1665, 79
Burns and scalds, 243, 244
Burt, Mr., Ex-Sheriff, as to waste of road material by traffic in London, 404
CACOBAU, King of Fiji, visit to Sir Hercules Robinson, in Sydney, 100,
Cagniard de la Tour, 51; his discovery of the yeast-plant, 92, 94
Caius College (Cambridge), outbreak of enteric fever in 1873, investigated by
Dr. Buchanan, 109, 110
Calcutta, system of scavengering, 494-496
Carpenter, Dr. W. B., case of enteric fever infection by air described by him,
IIO, III
Caterham, outbreak of enteric or typhoid fever in 1878, 108, 109
Caterham water company, 24, 25
Cellar dwellings, stringent regulations in regard to, 656, 657
Cellini, Benvenuto, 738
Cesspool air, table of analysis of, 63
Cesspools, 33, 34; their use condemned, 124; regarded as storages of
Champeaux, M. de, remarks by him in relation to tapestry, 736
Chaumont, Professor de, 37; quotation from, 28.
Chester, statistics of small-pox mortality derived from an old record, 139
Child, Dr. Gilbert, instance recorded by him of enteric fever infection by dirty
clothing, 113
Cholera (Asiatic), its ravages in the metropolis, 68; a sewage poison, 69; its
communication by means of the excreta, by air, water, and infected
articles, 103; citation of instances, 104-107
Churches, ventilation of, 37, 38
City and Guilds of London Institute, subventions granted for the formation of
technical classes, 833; central establishment erected at South Kensington,
833
Clark, Mr. Ellice, record of results of observations in watering the streets of
Reading, 464
Code Napoléon, as to construction of buildings, 512, 513
Cole, Sir Henry (the late), in reference to the national importance of Schools
of Design, 776; of annual exhibitions, 788; appointment as General
Superintendent of the Department of Practical Art, 792; the South
Kensington Museum due to his energy, 800, 839; quotation from speech
by him, 835; suggestions for management of School of Design, Appendix
B, 861-863
Collie, Dr., as to the quantity and quality of vaccination as a protection from
small-pox, 140
Continental Civil Aid Societies, 301
Corrosive sublimate, 55
Cosway, Richard, the celebrated miniature portrait painter, short biographical
Cotton's wharf, Tooley Street, destructive fire there, 568
Cremation, objections to, 81
Crudeli, his researches into the propagation of malarial affections, 99
DANDY (the), a means of sick transport in India, 312
Deep wells, contamination of, 30, 31; table of distances to which the
influence of pumping extends, 30
Defoe, Daniel, superstitious use of charms for prevention of disease in his day,
89
De Renzy, Dr., as to production of cholera, 106
Dhoolie, a means of sick-transport in India, 311, 312; Bryce's camel dhoolies,
Diphtheria, its conveyance in milk, 70, 116, 117; its poison retained about
premises for long periods, 119
Diseases, caused or conveyed by impure water, 22
Disinfection, various methods of, for use in infectious diseases, 146–153
Dislocation, causes of, and method of treatment, 176-178
Docker, Capt., (of the Royal Danish Army), system of huts devised by him,
386
Donnelly, Col, J. F. D., R.E., Secretary of the Science and Art Department,
818
Drowning, apparent, methods of restoring the apparently dead, 245-248
Dry-earth system, 82, 83
Dudlow Lane well, instance of contamination, 29
Dunant, Henri, his work Un Souvenir de Solferino,' 282
Duncan, Col., his work in connection with the St. John's Ambulance
Association, 300
Dust, composition of, 49; collection of, 49
Dwellings of the poor, present state of the law in relation thereto, 631-719;
introductory remarks, 631; abstract of existing law, 639-642; nuisances,
642-656; definition of nuisances, 645, 646; local authorities, 643, 644;
their duties, 637, 638, 646-656; cellar dwellings, 656, 657; new
buildings, 657-659; lodgings, 659-663; their classification, 659, 660;
ordinary lodging-houses, 660; bye-laws for their regulation, 660-663;
common lodging-houses, 663-665; bye-laws for their supervision and
control, 663-665; labouring classes' lodging-houses, 665-673; applica-
tion of Acts in reference thereto, 666, 667; bye-laws, 667, 668; expenses,
668-673; the Artisans' Dwellings Acts, (Torrens' Acts), 1868-1882,
673-692; their object and area, 674; duty of officer of health under
these Acts, 675, 676; duty of local authority, 676, 677; assessment of
compensation, 678, 679, 681; obstructive buildings, 675, 681; appeal,
682, 683; compensation to owner, 684; notices, 685, loans, 686;
special provisions of the Acts of 1879 and 1882 for the metropolis, 687;
689; recapitulation, 689-692; the Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings
Improvement Acts (Sir R. Cross's Acts), 692-710; their object and
area, 693; duty of the officer of health under these Acts, 693; duty of
local authority, 695; reconstruction of working-men's dwellings, 699, 700;
confirmation of scheme, 702; execution of scheme, 704; compulsory
purchase, 707; expenses of carrying these Acts into effect, 708, 710;
provisions of Sir R. Cross's Acts with regard to compulsory purchase,
710, proceedings on arbitration, 711; concluding summary, 717-719
Dyce, Mr., R.A., his report on foreign Schools of Designs, 765-769
EAR (the), how to remove a foreign body from, 249; why danger is to be
apprehended from non-removal, 249
Eastlake,, Sir Charles (the late), in reference to the arts in England during
Edison, Mr. (New York), his labours in the cause of electric lighting, 599,
600, бог
Enteric (or typhoid) fever, its communication by means of the excreta by air,
water, milk and infected articles, 103; citation of instances, 108-115
Eucalyphol, 55
Eucalyptus globulus, 33; antimalarial properties, 59
Excreta, decomposition and absorption of, 47
Eye (the), how to remove a foreign body from, 248, 249
FARIS, Surgeon-Major, stretcher designed by him, 307, 308
Faroe Islands, introduction of measles in 1846, 97
Farr, Dr., the late, as to similarity of phenomena in fermentation and infectious
disease, 93, 94
Fermentation, 50-55; its phenomena due to growth of torule, 92, 93
Field, Mr. Rogers, 29
Filtering, 32, 34
Fires and Fire Brigades, 505-620; nature of fire, 505, 506; courage, moral
and physical, an essential requirement for the profession of fireman,
508; natural qualifications of firemen for their work, 509, 510; advice to
beginners, 511, 512; construction of buildings, 512-516; constructional
defects, 515; system of contracting with builders, 515, 516; paramount
importance of sound construction, 516; water-supply, 516-521; supply
of water by the London Water Companies, 519; chemical apparatus for
extinguishing fires, 517; water service at home and abroad, 519–521 ;
fire-proof buildings, 521-534; choice of materials, 524; dangers from
the use of stone, 525; instance cited, 525; dangers from the use of iron,
526, 527; memorable example cited, 528; heat-resisting power of
massive timber, 529; instance of this given, 529-531; variety of
inventions for rendering materials uninflammable, 531, 532; con
struction of ceilings, 533; experimental results in reference to the
question of spontaneous combustion, 534-539; precautions for safety of
life in schools, prisons, places of amusement, etc., 539-552; exits of
theatres, 541-544; special licenses for theatres proposed, 545, 546;
light and air of the first importance in cases of panic, 546, 547; strict
system of inspection of theatres necessary, 547; limitation of number of
audience imperative, 548, 549; use of fire-escapes, 550; external ladders
or balconies to lofty buildings, 550, 551; closing of doors and windows to
exclude air, 552; concentration of mercantile stores in large buildings,
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