The Health Exhibition Literature. ...W. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... four feet above the highest window , and we must take care lest the birds come and build in it . 15. " It is constantly a matter of surprise and disgust to notice , especially in houses built for the working and middle classes , how ...
... four feet above the highest window , and we must take care lest the birds come and build in it . 15. " It is constantly a matter of surprise and disgust to notice , especially in houses built for the working and middle classes , how ...
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... four weeks the number of cases reached 100 ( that is to say that out of every 100 persons in the village more than 12 were attacked ) ; and altogether , to the close of the epidemic at the end of October , 130 persons , or 17 in every ...
... four weeks the number of cases reached 100 ( that is to say that out of every 100 persons in the village more than 12 were attacked ) ; and altogether , to the close of the epidemic at the end of October , 130 persons , or 17 in every ...
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... four hours . Each pint of fresh air contains about 15.8 ounces of nitrogen , with 4'19 ounces of oxygen , and to this is added ' 008 ounce of carbonic acid . We use up the oxygen and we give off carbonic acid , so that every pint of ...
... four hours . Each pint of fresh air contains about 15.8 ounces of nitrogen , with 4'19 ounces of oxygen , and to this is added ' 008 ounce of carbonic acid . We use up the oxygen and we give off carbonic acid , so that every pint of ...
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... four or six times the average . Thus we see that the air which blows over one man in the open is enough to meet the respiratory needs of 1000. If we take the average London street , 50 feet wide and flanked by houses 50 feet high , the ...
... four or six times the average . Thus we see that the air which blows over one man in the open is enough to meet the respiratory needs of 1000. If we take the average London street , 50 feet wide and flanked by houses 50 feet high , the ...
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... four or five fold of the amount originally used . Cagniard de la Tour in France and Schwann in Germany were the first to discover that yeast was a fungus - like plant , and it remained for Pasteur to show in what way the plant ( called ...
... four or five fold of the amount originally used . Cagniard de la Tour in France and Schwann in Germany were the first to discover that yeast was a fungus - like plant , and it remained for Pasteur to show in what way the plant ( called ...
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Popular passages
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.