The Health Exhibition Literature. ...W. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... matter of 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 ...
... matter of 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 ...
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... matter shall be restored without delay to our mother earth , who will receive it gratefully , and give back a glorious dividend . The greater number of our sanitary troubles are due to the neglect of this law . It will be noted that it ...
... matter shall be restored without delay to our mother earth , who will receive it gratefully , and give back a glorious dividend . The greater number of our sanitary troubles are due to the neglect of this law . It will be noted that it ...
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... matter will not bear the expense of much carriage . If the refuse of a big town is taken to one spot , the delay in collection and other difficulties increase , and it is found that the expense of transport eats up the profit . It is ...
... matter will not bear the expense of much carriage . If the refuse of a big town is taken to one spot , the delay in collection and other difficulties increase , and it is found that the expense of transport eats up the profit . It is ...
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... matter to its proper use might convey a valuable lesson to the inhabitants . I know one country town , the inhabitants of which subscribed to plant a beautiful walk which a by- gone benefactor had given to them . The trees sub- scribed ...
... matter to its proper use might convey a valuable lesson to the inhabitants . I know one country town , the inhabitants of which subscribed to plant a beautiful walk which a by- gone benefactor had given to them . The trees sub- scribed ...
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... matter . The ground may get sodden and sink away beneath , and thus the levels may get wrong and stoppages occur . Again , workmen will often maintain a level by means of wooden wedges , and these in time , rot , and the proper level is ...
... matter . The ground may get sodden and sink away beneath , and thus the levels may get wrong and stoppages occur . Again , workmen will often maintain a level by means of wooden wedges , and these in time , rot , and the proper level is ...
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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.