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 10
... and byrnies hung on the wall , No glee wood gladdened , ' twas gloomy all , And still as a warrior wrapped in pall , Where the dread King Death has bound him . Men told of that fair hall far and near , 10 ANGLO - SAXON DWELLINGS .
... and byrnies hung on the wall , No glee wood gladdened , ' twas gloomy all , And still as a warrior wrapped in pall , Where the dread King Death has bound him . Men told of that fair hall far and near , 10 ANGLO - SAXON DWELLINGS .
Page 32
... death and illness during the last ten years . And this progress , let it be remarked , has taken place without recent sanitary legis- lation , as a result of the diffusion of knowledge of sanitary matters , of an increasing and more ...
... death and illness during the last ten years . And this progress , let it be remarked , has taken place without recent sanitary legis- lation , as a result of the diffusion of knowledge of sanitary matters , of an increasing and more ...
Page 78
... death to occur from that cause . Then again it often gets broken by some accident , the master or mistress is not told of it , and the place remains untrapped , perhaps for years . That is a form of trap which should not be tolerated ...
... death to occur from that cause . Then again it often gets broken by some accident , the master or mistress is not told of it , and the place remains untrapped , perhaps for years . That is a form of trap which should not be tolerated ...
Page 96
... it rises much above or falls much below that , death would ensue . But the human body is a furnace in which the process of combustion is continually going on . Therefore , in order to preserve the 96 VENTILATION IN CONNECTION WITH.
... it rises much above or falls much below that , death would ensue . But the human body is a furnace in which the process of combustion is continually going on . Therefore , in order to preserve the 96 VENTILATION IN CONNECTION WITH.
Page 114
... death in its most ghastly form to numerous communities , that if the sanitation of each individual house in the various towns in which the cholera is now raging had been properly looked to , the general state of the towns and village ...
... death in its most ghastly form to numerous communities , that if the sanitation of each individual house in the various towns in which the cholera is now raging had been properly looked to , the general state of the towns and village ...
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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...