Journal of the Sanitary Institute, 17. köideSanitary Institute, 1897 |
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... drain . The depth of the filtering medium is only about fourteen inches . The cubic capacity of the filter bed is thus so small that the natural expectation would be that in a few days the filtering medium would become choked , and a ...
... drain . The depth of the filtering medium is only about fourteen inches . The cubic capacity of the filter bed is thus so small that the natural expectation would be that in a few days the filtering medium would become choked , and a ...
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... draining the straining tanks before aeration . The percentage of purification is estimated from ammonia figures ... drainage = 43 per cent . Capacity for sewage 450 gallons , being allowance for drainage . TANK No. 2 STRAINER . Filled ...
... draining the straining tanks before aeration . The percentage of purification is estimated from ammonia figures ... drainage = 43 per cent . Capacity for sewage 450 gallons , being allowance for drainage . TANK No. 2 STRAINER . Filled ...
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... drain tiles covered with coke , and six inches of sand , the latter not for filtration purposes , but to keep the ... drains it was at once apparent that the work was not complete . Nature was at work still , and the drains were a ...
... drain tiles covered with coke , and six inches of sand , the latter not for filtration purposes , but to keep the ... drains it was at once apparent that the work was not complete . Nature was at work still , and the drains were a ...
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... drainage of the soil to account for the alteration . Dr. Thorne Thorne , on the other hand , has indicated that the large amount of agricultural drainage which had then already been effected throughout the Kingdom had been of a sort to ...
... drainage of the soil to account for the alteration . Dr. Thorne Thorne , on the other hand , has indicated that the large amount of agricultural drainage which had then already been effected throughout the Kingdom had been of a sort to ...
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... drainage improvements were undertaken in Salisbury the deadheads to the old canals were removed and the water diverted into proper drains . Although phthisis is said to be due to subsoil water , he believed it was more largely brought ...
... drainage improvements were undertaken in Salisbury the deadheads to the old canals were removed and the water diverted into proper drains . Although phthisis is said to be due to subsoil water , he believed it was more largely brought ...
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Page 108 - workshop" means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article...
Page 358 - ... smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to her lover.
Page 111 - Any factory, workshop, or workplace (not already under the operation of any general Act for the regulation of factories or bakehouses), not kept in a cleanly state, or not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases vapours dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work...
Page 121 - Any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill, factory, dyehouse, brewery, bakehouse, or gaswork, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever; and Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private dwelling-house) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance...
Page 108 - ... article, and to which or over which premises, room, or place, the employer of the persons working therein has the right of access or control...
Page 112 - There shall be affixed at the entrance of a factory and a workshop, and in such other parts thereof as an inspector for the time being directs, and be constantly kept so affixed in the prescribed form and in such position as to be easily read by the persons employed in the factory or workshop, (I.) The prescribed abstract of...
Page 107 - Act, (2.) also any premises, room, or place not being a factory within the meaning of this Act, in which premises, room, or place, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which premises, any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for...
Page 115 - Expenses Acts, 1869 and 1871, shall apply accordingly as if they were herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to the above-mentioned costs and sums.
Page 118 - Acts shall have effect as if every laundry in which steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in aid of the laundry process were a factory, and every other...
Page 358 - That disease, over which science has since achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories, was then the most terrible of all the ministers of death. The havoc of the plague...