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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... passing guests . Man's soul is like the bird in winter which flies in from the dark cold air without , warms itself at the hearth , O king , then passes out through the other door into the unknown dark . He is gone — no man knows whence ...
... passing guests . Man's soul is like the bird in winter which flies in from the dark cold air without , warms itself at the hearth , O king , then passes out through the other door into the unknown dark . He is gone — no man knows whence ...
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... passing from one to another without running the risk of chilling the whole body in the transit . In the Scandinavian houses of an early period there does not appear any trace of the unwholesome staircase which embitters the lives of so ...
... passing from one to another without running the risk of chilling the whole body in the transit . In the Scandinavian houses of an early period there does not appear any trace of the unwholesome staircase which embitters the lives of so ...
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... passing direct into a drain , or even trapped pipes passing into a drain pipe with unsealed open mouth passing just out of sight beneath the floor . Numbers have badly jointed fire - clay drains running under them — a common sewer for ...
... passing direct into a drain , or even trapped pipes passing into a drain pipe with unsealed open mouth passing just out of sight beneath the floor . Numbers have badly jointed fire - clay drains running under them — a common sewer for ...
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... pass through the window . Further advantages follow . The nurse can take exercise out of doors , when the condition of the patient permits . The patient can be seen by parents through the window , and all communication with the house ...
... pass through the window . Further advantages follow . The nurse can take exercise out of doors , when the condition of the patient permits . The patient can be seen by parents through the window , and all communication with the house ...
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filled a tube six inches square passing into one of the large glass cases of the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society . It has been in the tube for three or four years , and is part of an experiment which I have never ...
filled a tube six inches square passing into one of the large glass cases of the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society . It has been in the tube for three or four years , and is part of an experiment which I have never ...
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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
Popular passages
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...