The Health Exhibition Literature. ...W. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... removed from houses , and which have been the cause of more or less illness in consequence of their becoming perforated , and thereby admitting sewer air to the house . Water - traps are of only partial use in keeping foul gases out of ...
... removed from houses , and which have been the cause of more or less illness in consequence of their becoming perforated , and thereby admitting sewer air to the house . Water - traps are of only partial use in keeping foul gases out of ...
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... removed from premises by the public authorities , then such removal should be paid for by the owner in the case of weekly tenants , or by the occupier in the case of yearly tenants and leaseholders , or freeholders . All water - closets ...
... removed from premises by the public authorities , then such removal should be paid for by the owner in the case of weekly tenants , or by the occupier in the case of yearly tenants and leaseholders , or freeholders . All water - closets ...
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... removed from water by the most perfect filtration . The ensuing version of the " Lausen case " is taken , however from Mr. Noel Hartley's little book on " Water , Air and Disin- fectants , " published by the Society for Promoting ...
... removed from water by the most perfect filtration . The ensuing version of the " Lausen case " is taken , however from Mr. Noel Hartley's little book on " Water , Air and Disin- fectants , " published by the Society for Promoting ...
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... removed many had to be killed . They were victims to fog . We have not improved since then , and in spite of all our efforts , the smoke will remain proportionate to the number of houses . There can be little doubt that the domestic ...
... removed many had to be killed . They were victims to fog . We have not improved since then , and in spite of all our efforts , the smoke will remain proportionate to the number of houses . There can be little doubt that the domestic ...
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... removed by subsidence and filtration , but the foul organic matters in solution are very persistent . They oxidise very slowly , and they are removed only to a slight extent by sand filtration . There is no river in the United Kingdom ...
... removed by subsidence and filtration , but the foul organic matters in solution are very persistent . They oxidise very slowly , and they are removed only to a slight extent by sand filtration . There is no river in the United Kingdom ...
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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.