The Health exhibition literature. v. 3, 3. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Page 19
... possible form of dwelling even for a king . As the settlement in Britain became more confirmed , and the arts of peace began to make way among the military settlers , they , like the Romans ( who had occupied the same ground before them ...
... possible form of dwelling even for a king . As the settlement in Britain became more confirmed , and the arts of peace began to make way among the military settlers , they , like the Romans ( who had occupied the same ground before them ...
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... possible , being mere slits for the passage of air ( wind eyes , or eyelet holes for wind ) ; but towards the end of the seventh century , Benedict , Bishop of Wearmouth , and Bishop Wilfrith introduced glass for church windows , and it ...
... possible , being mere slits for the passage of air ( wind eyes , or eyelet holes for wind ) ; but towards the end of the seventh century , Benedict , Bishop of Wearmouth , and Bishop Wilfrith introduced glass for church windows , and it ...
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... possible to hold this International Exhibition devoted to matters affecting health , and by the statements made by Sir James Paget on Tuesday last as to the diminution of preventible death and illness during the last ten years . And ...
... possible to hold this International Exhibition devoted to matters affecting health , and by the statements made by Sir James Paget on Tuesday last as to the diminution of preventible death and illness during the last ten years . And ...
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... possible , which shall be flushed out in one way or other . There are certain alternative arrangements which are valuable in certain positions which I will not go into now , which are called valve - closets . Then you must have the ...
... possible , which shall be flushed out in one way or other . There are certain alternative arrangements which are valuable in certain positions which I will not go into now , which are called valve - closets . Then you must have the ...
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... possible mal - construction that I can crowd into one drawing , and which is further illustrated in more or less detail in the other drawings . First of all , I take the worst part of it , the closet , which is in the middle of the ...
... possible mal - construction that I can crowd into one drawing , and which is further illustrated in more or less detail in the other drawings . First of all , I take the worst part of it , the closet , which is in the middle of the ...
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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
Popular passages
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...