The Health exhibition literature. v. 3, 3. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... 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 many people in this country . Certainly they had stairs , but they were the ...
... 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 many people in this country . Certainly they had stairs , but they were the ...
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... body of the house . The billiard - room closet , and the servants ' closet , are virtually in the open air , and the family closets are also cut off from the house proper by ample window ventilation . Above all , a main inspection ...
... body of the house . The billiard - room closet , and the servants ' closet , are virtually in the open air , and the family closets are also cut off from the house proper by ample window ventilation . Above all , a main inspection ...
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... body is 98 ° Fahr . If 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 ...
... body is 98 ° Fahr . If 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 ...
Page 97
... bodies near it . Thus , if a hot body be placed near a cold body , the hot body will radiate heat rapidly . If the hot body be near a body less hot than itself , but still hot , it will part with its temperature slowly . Let us apply ...
... bodies near it . Thus , if a hot body be placed near a cold body , the hot body will radiate heat rapidly . If the hot body be near a body less hot than itself , but still hot , it will part with its temperature slowly . Let us apply ...
Page 99
... body radiating its heat too rapidly to the colder walls . There- fore if you are to abandon the open fire , but retain its comfort , you must warm the walls and floors , & c . , of your rooms . If you can maintain your walls , floors ...
... body radiating its heat too rapidly to the colder walls . There- fore if you are to abandon the open fire , but retain its comfort , you must warm the walls and floors , & c . , of your rooms . If you can maintain your walls , floors ...
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Anglo-Saxon apparatus appliances Arthur Gamgee atmosphere average death-rate basement boiler breathing brick building burn burner byelaws carbonic acid carried cause cesspool cistern closet coal coal-gas combustion country houses Deaths of children diarrhoeal diseases diphtheria disconnection domestic dust dwelling English Ernest Hart evil factories fever FISH FISHERIES EXHIBITION FISHERIES LITERATURE-VOL flame floor foul air fresh air furnaces gully hall Health Exhibition heat Illustrated impurities inside kind larder lecture London manufacturing means measles Metropolis Moritz Heyne nuisance ordinary Ormskirk outer air pass present Price principal zymotic diseases production radiating rain-water pipe rats Rogers Field Roman roof sanitary arrangements sanitation scarlet fever second house sewer sewer gas sink smell soil pipe soil-pipe Spencer Walpole steam stove temperature thing towns trap underneath ventilation walls warm waste waste-pipe water supply whooping-cough WILLIAM CLOWES workshops zymotic diseases
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Page 213 - ... 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 ; but all such byelaws imposing any penalty shall be so framed as to allow of the recovery of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty.
Page 214 - 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 213 - ... 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 214 - 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 156 - Hence at this late hour, while I am thus feebly, but earnestly, pleading the cause of these oppressed children, what numbers of them are still tethered to their toil, confined in heated rooms, bathed in perspiration, stunned with the roar of revolving wheels, poisoned with the noxious effluvia of grease and gas, till, at last, weary and exhausted, they turn out, almost naked, into the inclement air, and creep, shivering, to beds from which a relay of their young work-fellows have just risen. Such,...
Page 181 - 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 158 - ... 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...