The Health exhibition literature. v. 3, 3. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Page 42
... 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 panels should be movable ...
... 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 panels should be movable ...
Page 67
... practically interesting to a large number of people , and I have selected one in which everybody ought to take an interest , although in some degree , perhaps , not a very savoury subject . In the first place let us consider the ...
... practically interesting to a large number of people , and I have selected one in which everybody ought to take an interest , although in some degree , perhaps , not a very savoury subject . In the first place let us consider the ...
Page 73
... practically the same thing as if foul air escaped out of them ; because it soaks into the soil around and pro- duces bad air , which passes into the houses sometimes in very considerable quantities , so that whether you have an escape ...
... practically the same thing as if foul air escaped out of them ; because it soaks into the soil around and pro- duces bad air , which passes into the houses sometimes in very considerable quantities , so that whether you have an escape ...
Page 80
... practically inside the house . I have seen such instances , and those were instances where rain water has been brought into them by gutters , and in that way you occasionally find an open head positively inside the house . I found ...
... practically inside the house . I have seen such instances , and those were instances where rain water has been brought into them by gutters , and in that way you occasionally find an open head positively inside the house . I found ...
Page 86
... practically use- less . There are one or two other matters which I wish to mention which , as I have already taken up so much of your time , you will be glad to know will only take a few minutes . One is that smells are frequently found ...
... practically use- less . There are one or two other matters which I wish to mention which , as I have already taken up so much of your time , you will be glad to know will only take a few minutes . One is that smells are frequently found ...
Common terms and phrases
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...