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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... gives us dark- browed beetling towers of defence , built high in air to watch for enemies that lurked in every bush , comfortless little rooms with many little openings to the air through which to watch and shoot the approaching ...
... gives us dark- browed beetling towers of defence , built high in air to watch for enemies that lurked in every bush , comfortless little rooms with many little openings to the air through which to watch and shoot the approaching ...
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... give you , and that is this , the rain- water cistern is fed by one of the fall pipes , and that pipe very likely opens near a bedroom window ; if the fall pipe goes directly into the drains , you have then a means by which the gases ...
... give you , and that is this , the rain- water cistern is fed by one of the fall pipes , and that pipe very likely opens near a bedroom window ; if the fall pipe goes directly into the drains , you have then a means by which the gases ...
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... give you another illustration which occurred to a friend of mine , a medical man , who having illness in his house , had the drains examined and found they were made to run up hill , and the consequence was they were all filled up solid ...
... give you another illustration which occurred to a friend of mine , a medical man , who having illness in his house , had the drains examined and found they were made to run up hill , and the consequence was they were all filled up solid ...
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... evils they had discovered , in their own houses in London , which would no doubt astound and horrify of the section of the opening in the wall . visitors from the country . He would simply give one illus- HEALTHY HOUSES . 45.
... evils they had discovered , in their own houses in London , which would no doubt astound and horrify of the section of the opening in the wall . visitors from the country . He would simply give one illus- HEALTHY HOUSES . 45.
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... evils they had discovered , in their own houses in London , which would no doubt astound and horrify tration of a right hon . gentleman , a Privy visitors from the country . He would simply give one illus- HEALTHY HOUSES . 45.
... evils they had discovered , in their own houses in London , which would no doubt astound and horrify tration of a right hon . gentleman , a Privy visitors from the country . He would simply give one illus- HEALTHY HOUSES . 45.
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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...