The Health exhibition literature. v. 3, 3. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... disease ; and yet until the last few years there was hardly a house in the kingdom that was not at times a source of illness , and there were very few householders who knew or cared to know whether their houses were not manufactories of ...
... disease ; and yet until the last few years there was hardly a house in the kingdom that was not at times a source of illness , and there were very few householders who knew or cared to know whether their houses were not manufactories of ...
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... disease . Every old house in the kingdom needs that its sanitary arrangements should be reviewed and revised on the principles established within recent years . Every new house ought to be made as far as its construc- tion goes ...
... disease . Every old house in the kingdom needs that its sanitary arrangements should be reviewed and revised on the principles established within recent years . Every new house ought to be made as far as its construc- tion goes ...
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... disease . Dust may be practically excluded in two ways , either by admission of fresh air through a filter to be spoken of presently , or by placing the food in cupboards , the doors of which are panelled with canvas or bunting . The ...
... disease . Dust may be practically excluded in two ways , either by admission of fresh air through a filter to be spoken of presently , or by placing the food in cupboards , the doors of which are panelled with canvas or bunting . The ...
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... disease which they used occasionally to bring into court with them from the prisons , giving it by contact with their clothes to the gaolers and jurors , and even the judges themselves used to be attacked with it : so that the courts ...
... disease which they used occasionally to bring into court with them from the prisons , giving it by contact with their clothes to the gaolers and jurors , and even the judges themselves used to be attacked with it : so that the courts ...
Page 69
... disease which is not only characteristic of overcrowded places , but it will not flourish anywhere else . But when ... diseases prevail in such air , and what is the reason why air which has been breathed is unfit to be breathed again ...
... disease which is not only characteristic of overcrowded places , but it will not flourish anywhere else . But when ... diseases prevail in such air , and what is the reason why air which has been breathed is unfit to be breathed again ...
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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...