The Health exhibition literature. v. 3, 3. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Page 42
... coal 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 ...
... coal 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 ...
Page 44
... coal effectively and economically . Now I come to the question of the economy of coal . Adequate warmth contributes not only to comfort , but to health . Fires not only warm a house , but aid materially in its ventilation . Hence the ...
... coal effectively and economically . Now I come to the question of the economy of coal . Adequate warmth contributes not only to comfort , but to health . Fires not only warm a house , but aid materially in its ventilation . Hence the ...
Page 86
... - rooms through the bell - wire tubes . One other thing I must mention , and that is the foul air that is produced by a slight escape of coal gas . That is another important matter . As gas - fittings are not 86 FOUL AIR IN HOUSES .
... - rooms through the bell - wire tubes . One other thing I must mention , and that is the foul air that is produced by a slight escape of coal gas . That is another important matter . As gas - fittings are not 86 FOUL AIR IN HOUSES .
Page 87
... coal gas from them into the rooms frequently takes place . Where that is the case it produces a very peculiar smell , which nobody would ever suppose was from coal gas . It would generally be supposed to be from drain - air , and it is ...
... coal gas from them into the rooms frequently takes place . Where that is the case it produces a very peculiar smell , which nobody would ever suppose was from coal gas . It would generally be supposed to be from drain - air , and it is ...
Page 94
... coal which we burn is out of all proportion to the heat which we produce . Therefore , in our towns the methods to which we resort for warming our rooms loads with impurities the air which we have to breathe . Those who have been born ...
... coal which we burn is out of all proportion to the heat which we produce . Therefore , in our towns the methods to which we resort for warming our rooms loads with impurities the air which we have to breathe . Those who have been born ...
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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...