Health in the dwelling. Vol. 4-6. Health in diet. Vol. 7-9. Health in relation to civic life. Vol. 10-12. General hygiene. Vol. 13-16. Conference on education. Vol. 17. Miscellaneous, including papers on Japan. Vol. 18. Miscellaneous, including jury awards and official catalogue. Vol. 19. Miscellaneous, including papers on ChinaW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Page 15
... carried on in out- houses , as is the case in Russia . The true English style of building is confined to one floor and that is the ground floor . By this means the fatigue of going up and down stairs is avoided , and the possibility ...
... carried on in out- houses , as is the case in Russia . The true English style of building is confined to one floor and that is the ground floor . By this means the fatigue of going up and down stairs is avoided , and the possibility ...
Page 22
... carried over ( like the word linden to Beowulf's iron shield ) to the iron walls of New England , and you have before you precisely what was done when house builders abandoned wood as the only material for building , and began to work ...
... carried over ( like the word linden to Beowulf's iron shield ) to the iron walls of New England , and you have before you precisely what was done when house builders abandoned wood as the only material for building , and began to work ...
Page 33
... carry them out aright should be far less costly than to carry them out in a faulty and vicious manner . Things that ... carried it under the floor into the drain ; we detained a greater part of the filth inside the house and beneath it ...
... carry them out aright should be far less costly than to carry them out in a faulty and vicious manner . Things that ... carried it under the floor into the drain ; we detained a greater part of the filth inside the house and beneath it ...
Page 34
... carry the contents away , and for that purpose we place the sink as near the outer wall as we can in order to carry a pipe through the wall into the outer air , and let this pipe open into an open gully , and that no foul air may be ...
... carry the contents away , and for that purpose we place the sink as near the outer wall as we can in order to carry a pipe through the wall into the outer air , and let this pipe open into an open gully , and that no foul air may be ...
Page 35
... carried up above the roof to open at the top , and it is carried down below just beneath the flags into an open trap where the air can get at it . It simply goes into a tube open at the top and bottom . Whatever your arrangements are ...
... carried up above the roof to open at the top , and it is carried down below just beneath the flags into an open trap where the air can get at it . It simply goes into a tube open at the top and bottom . Whatever your arrangements are ...
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Anglo-Saxon apparatus appliances Arthur Gamgee atmosphere average death-rate bakehouses basement bath big booth boiler brick building burner burning byelaws called carbonic acid causes cesspool cistern closet coal coal-gas combustion connected construction cubic Deaths of children Devizes diarrhoeal diseases diphtheria domestic dust dwelling English ERNEST HART evil Exhibition factories fever fire flame floor foul air fresh air furnaces hall heat Holbeck house drain Illustrated impurities inside joint kind lecture London means measles Metropolis Moritz Heyne nuisance ordinary Ormskirk outer air passing porringers potter present Price principal zymotic diseases production rain-water pipes Rogers Field Roman roof sanitation scarlet fever second house sewer sink smell Smoke Abatement Committee soil pipe soil-pipe steam Stoke-on-Trent stove supply syphon temperature therma things tiles towns trap underneath ventilation walls Walsall warm waste waste-pipe whooping-cough Wolstanton workshops
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Page 181 - ... pounds for each offence, and in the case of a continuing offence a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each day after written notice of the offence from the local authority...
Page 134 - ... the workers to an injurious extent, it appears to an inspector that such inhalation could be to a great extent prevented by the use of a fan or other mechanical means, the inspector may direct a fan or other mechanical means of a proper construction for preventing such inhalation to be provided within a reasonable time...
Page 134 - If in a factory or workshop where grinding, glazing, or polishing on a wheel, or any process is carried on by which dust is generated and inhaled by the workers to an injurious extent...
Page 181 - Such bye-laws, when so confirmed, published, and affixed, shall be binding upon and be observed by all parties, and shall be sufficient to justify all persons acting under the same...
Page 181 - Board, shall be conclusive evidence of the existence and of the due making of the same in all proceedings under the same, without adducing proof of such seal or of the fact of such making.
Page 149 - In 1819 the attention of parliament was directed to the question, and a select committee was appointed " to inquire how far persons using steam-engines and furnaces could erect them in a manner less prejudicial to public health and comfort.
Page 200 - THE SWEDISH FISHERIES. By Professor FA Smitt, Royal Commissioner for Sweden to the International Fisheries Exhibition. dd. NOTES ON THE FISH SUPPLY OF NORWAY. By Frederik M. Wallem, Executive Commissioner for Norway to the International Fisheries Exhibition. dd. NOTES ON THE FOOD FISHES AND EDIBLE MOLLUSCA OF NEW SOUTH WALES, ETC. By EP Ramsay, Commissioner for New South Wales.
Page 181 - Gazette, and printed and hung up at the county hall and be open to public inspection without payment, and copies thereof shall be delivered to any person applying for the same on payment of such sum, not exceeding...
Page 77 - Ibs. would require 1280 cubic feet ; but at a very low computation of the velocity of the gases in an ordinary chimneyflue, the air would pass up the chimney at a rate of from 4 to 6 feet per second, or from 14,000 to 20,000 cubic feet per hour ; with the chimneys in ordinary use, a velocity of from 10 to 15 feet per second often prevails, giving an out.
Page 180 - Act, 1862.) 42. An Act to amend an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty...