The Health Exhibition Literature. ...W. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... become since 1872 the Ministry of Public Health in this kingdom . The Royal Sanitary Commission paved the way for this great change in our system of Local Government ; and the ' passing of the Public Health Act in 1875 , followed in the ...
... become since 1872 the Ministry of Public Health in this kingdom . The Royal Sanitary Commission paved the way for this great change in our system of Local Government ; and the ' passing of the Public Health Act in 1875 , followed in the ...
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... become a trouble and an expense . It is your duty , therefore , to try to keep yourselves well . Knowing your duty , do it . " Although , happily , we have been trained to extend sympathy and help to the sick and afflicted , it is never ...
... become a trouble and an expense . It is your duty , therefore , to try to keep yourselves well . Knowing your duty , do it . " Although , happily , we have been trained to extend sympathy and help to the sick and afflicted , it is never ...
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... become overcrowded so that healthy filth disposal is impossible , then comes the gigantic sewerage scheme , which only increases the overcrowding , by making it possible to pack houses together even closer than before , and we usually ...
... become overcrowded so that healthy filth disposal is impossible , then comes the gigantic sewerage scheme , which only increases the overcrowding , by making it possible to pack houses together even closer than before , and we usually ...
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... become necessary ; and their construction should never be permitted merely to serve the interests and profit of companies or individuals . By those who are content to live simply , the conditions of healthy living are easily attained ...
... become necessary ; and their construction should never be permitted merely to serve the interests and profit of companies or individuals . By those who are content to live simply , the conditions of healthy living are easily attained ...
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... become a channel whereby the used air of the ground floor may float up to the first floor . Staircases should be shut off from the ground floor apartments by means of a door . Many of the details of this simple dwelling will be dealt ...
... become a channel whereby the used air of the ground floor may float up to the first floor . Staircases should be shut off from the ground floor apartments by means of a door . Many of the details of this simple dwelling will be dealt ...
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Page 248 - On the restoration of life, a tea-spoonful of warm water should be given ; and then, if the power of swallowing has returned, small quantities of wine, warm brandy and water, or coffee, should be administered. The patient should be kept in bed, and a disposition to sleep encouraged.
Page 701 - ... intended to be taken, and requiring an answer stating whether the person so served assents, dissents, or is neuter in respect of taking such lands.
Page 645 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Page 78 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 20 - ... refuse, on one side, which the clean water nevertheless chastises to purity ; but it cannot conquer the dead earth beyond ; and there, circled and coiled under festering scum, the stagnant edge of the pool effaces itself into a slope of black slime, the accumulation of indolent years.
Page 19 - TWENTY YEARS ago, there was no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England, nor any more pathetic in the world, by its expression of sweet human character and life, than that immediately bordering on the sources of the...
Page 743 - And here 1 cannot, but with much reverence, mention the every-way Right Honourable Thomas Howard, Lord High Marshal of England, as great for his noble patronage of arts and ancient learning as for his birth and place ; to whose liberal charges and magnificence this angle of the world oweth the first sight of Greek and Roman statues, with whose admired presence he began to honour the gardens and galleries of Arundel-house about twenty years ago12, and hath ever since continued to transplant old Greece...
Page 394 - ... (except such duties, powers, and authorities as relate to the affairs of the church, or the management or relief of the poor, or the administration of any money or other property applicable to the relief of the poor...
Page 394 - All Acts of parliament in force in any parish or place to which this Act extends, or in any part of such parish or place, shall, so far as the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act...
Page 646 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family: 6.