The Health Exhibition Literature. ...W. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... fact , the reverse has been the case , and railways have merely served to swell the size of places already overgrown . The great difficulty of dealing with overcrowding is this , that so many people make a profit out of it OUR DUTY IN ...
... fact , the reverse has been the case , and railways have merely served to swell the size of places already overgrown . The great difficulty of dealing with overcrowding is this , that so many people make a profit out of it OUR DUTY IN ...
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... fact was such a house as the majority of mothers would consider a very undesirable winter - residence for young children . 1. That the pipes sent by the maker are often OUR DUTY IN RELATION TO HEALTH . II FURLEY'S "LOWMOOR JACKET"
... fact was such a house as the majority of mothers would consider a very undesirable winter - residence for young children . 1. That the pipes sent by the maker are often OUR DUTY IN RELATION TO HEALTH . II FURLEY'S "LOWMOOR JACKET"
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... fact truth . Unfortunately for the purity of English waters , the Public Health Act of 1848 compelled the emptying of town sewerage into rivers , and we are still taught that one of the chief tenets of our sanitary creed should be to ...
... fact truth . Unfortunately for the purity of English waters , the Public Health Act of 1848 compelled the emptying of town sewerage into rivers , and we are still taught that one of the chief tenets of our sanitary creed should be to ...
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... fact of which the proof is almost convincing . That the germs of these diseases will live in water is certain , because typhoid and cholera are both water - carried poisons , as has been proved any number of times . The germs of these ...
... fact of which the proof is almost convincing . That the germs of these diseases will live in water is certain , because typhoid and cholera are both water - carried poisons , as has been proved any number of times . The germs of these ...
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... fact became evident - viz . , that the disease was almost entirely confined to that part of the district supplied with the company's water pure and simple , whilst the outlying part , which was only partially supplied from the company's ...
... fact became evident - viz . , that the disease was almost entirely confined to that part of the district supplied with the company's water pure and simple , whilst the outlying part , which was only partially supplied from the company's ...
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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.