The Health exhibition literature. v. 3, 3. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Page 96
... flame in open fire - places , the stronger must be the draught of the fire and the abstraction of heat . Let us next consider what are the conditions which we require for comfort . The normal temperature of the human body is 98 ° Fahr ...
... flame in open fire - places , the stronger must be the draught of the fire and the abstraction of heat . Let us next consider what are the conditions which we require for comfort . The normal temperature of the human body is 98 ° Fahr ...
Page 97
... flame , the great part of the heat given out is radiant heat ; whereas with a body heated to from 150 to 200 degrees , like a hot - water pipe , a compara- tively small proportion is radiant heat . Therefore , when you heat a room by ...
... flame , the great part of the heat given out is radiant heat ; whereas with a body heated to from 150 to 200 degrees , like a hot - water pipe , a compara- tively small proportion is radiant heat . Therefore , when you heat a room by ...
Page 131
... flame itself is due to a chemical combination ; the particles of coal - gas , that is , the hydrogen and hydro ... flame . I told you just now that you may have a sudden flame passing rapidly through a great mass of coal - gas and air ...
... flame itself is due to a chemical combination ; the particles of coal - gas , that is , the hydrogen and hydro ... flame . I told you just now that you may have a sudden flame passing rapidly through a great mass of coal - gas and air ...
Page 132
... flame gives out more heat than the other flame . That is not so . It gives out exactly the same amount of heat ; whenever you are burning a given quantity of gas you get a certain quantity of heat , no more and no less ; but this flame ...
... flame gives out more heat than the other flame . That is not so . It gives out exactly the same amount of heat ; whenever you are burning a given quantity of gas you get a certain quantity of heat , no more and no less ; but this flame ...
Page 133
... flame , but there is really steam pouring up into the atmosphere and we can easily catch it . I have here a flask of cold water . I will hold this in the flame , and it will condense the steam out- side . The cold water inside will keep ...
... flame , but there is really steam pouring up into the atmosphere and we can easily catch it . I have here a flask of cold water . I will hold this in the flame , and it will condense the steam out- side . The cold water inside will keep ...
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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...