The Health exhibition literature. v. 3, 3. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... heat . In such a climate the structures raised by man would naturally be fortresses to keep out the heat where it was too abundant for his comfort , and a house would mean a cool cave . But fancy an atrium in the Lincolnshire fens , or ...
... heat . In such a climate the structures raised by man would naturally be fortresses to keep out the heat where it was too abundant for his comfort , and a house would mean a cool cave . But fancy an atrium in the Lincolnshire fens , or ...
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... heat quite as much as stone , is easy to work in and is at hand . The pine forests all over the North furnish man with the cheapest and best way of building ; long trunks of the tall pine trees are laid one upon the other until a ...
... heat quite as much as stone , is easy to work in and is at hand . The pine forests all over the North furnish man with the cheapest and best way of building ; long trunks of the tall pine trees are laid one upon the other until a ...
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... heat to keep them going for another fortnight . Thus when Tacitus speaks of the constant use of the warm bath by northern nations we know what he means , and we are led to understand why our forefathers paid so much attention to the ...
... heat to keep them going for another fortnight . Thus when Tacitus speaks of the constant use of the warm bath by northern nations we know what he means , and we are led to understand why our forefathers paid so much attention to the ...
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... heat- producers by the adoption of the contrivance which I have called an " Economiser , " which can be made , not only at a moderate cost , but ( being unpatented ) by any ironmonger or blacksmith . Messrs . Nelson of Leeds show , in ...
... heat- producers by the adoption of the contrivance which I have called an " Economiser , " which can be made , not only at a moderate cost , but ( being unpatented ) by any ironmonger or blacksmith . Messrs . Nelson of Leeds show , in ...
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... heat is concerned , it is also the most wasteful . One pound of coal is more than sufficient , if all the heat of combustion is utilised , to raise the temper- ature of a room , twenty feet square and twelve feet high , to ten degrees ...
... heat is concerned , it is also the most wasteful . One pound of coal is more than sufficient , if all the heat of combustion is utilised , to raise the temper- ature of a room , twenty feet square and twelve feet high , to ten degrees ...
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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...