The Health exhibition literature. v. 8, 8. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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... nature existed . If he opened his window to get fresh air , he got sewer - gas , and the sewers ventilated into his larder , besides which a cesspool existed under the pantry . He need hardly say that his predecessor and his family were ...
... nature existed . If he opened his window to get fresh air , he got sewer - gas , and the sewers ventilated into his larder , besides which a cesspool existed under the pantry . He need hardly say that his predecessor and his family were ...
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... nature is generally recognised long before the symptoms have become dangerous , and the proper means of arresting it have been adopted in time . Yet occasionally the symptoms ( which are liable to variation ) are misleading ; and if at ...
... nature is generally recognised long before the symptoms have become dangerous , and the proper means of arresting it have been adopted in time . Yet occasionally the symptoms ( which are liable to variation ) are misleading ; and if at ...
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... nature , and referable to the nervous and muscular systems . The condition is , in fact , known by the name of metallic , or mercurial , tremor . The first signs of its presence are : -a general tremulousness of the hands and arms ...
... nature , and referable to the nervous and muscular systems . The condition is , in fact , known by the name of metallic , or mercurial , tremor . The first signs of its presence are : -a general tremulousness of the hands and arms ...
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... nature , their effects are simply irritative , and to produce chronic inflammation or fibroid change ; and that the only appreciable distinctive characters are such as are due to the quality of the particles imbedded in the lungs , and ...
... nature , their effects are simply irritative , and to produce chronic inflammation or fibroid change ; and that the only appreciable distinctive characters are such as are due to the quality of the particles imbedded in the lungs , and ...
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... nature of hurtful tendency , into an employment seriously dangerous to health . Here lies the explanation of a fact most deplorable for the working classes of our country --- that , in proportion as the people of a district are ...
... nature of hurtful tendency , into an employment seriously dangerous to health . Here lies the explanation of a fact most deplorable for the working classes of our country --- that , in proportion as the people of a district are ...
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ALFRED CARPENTER ambulance amongst animals beds Board body burial carbonic carbonic acid carried cause chalk cholera cisterns compulsory condition considerable Contagious Diseases Animals contamination cost cremation danger death diphtheria domestic doubt drains enteric fever epidemic fact feet filter fire FISHERIES gallons ground hard water hospital hydrants important impurities infectious diseases instance lime Loch Katrine Loch Venachar London means Medical Officer meter metropolis Metropolitan Board miles milk necessary notification obtained Officer of Health organic matter paper patient persons pipes poisons polluted population practice present pumped pure purposes quantity question referred regard removal reservoirs result river rural districts sanitary arrangements sanitary authorities scarlet fever sewage sewer small-pox soft water softening springs square miles sufficient supply of water surface taken Thames tion town typhoid fever typhus ventilation waste water companies water supply
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Page 554 - HOME then proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried unanimously.
Page 10 - For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family...
Page 254 - The great-eyed oxen through the flaming hours, Goading their velvet flanks : then marked he, too, How lizard fed on ant, and snake on him, And kite on both ; and how the fish-hawk robbed The fish-tiger of that which it had seized ; The shrike chasing the bulbul, which did chase The jewelled butterflies ; till everywhere Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain, Life living upon death.
Page 248 - ... to inform you that the German Government has asked the Swiss Federal Council to take charge of the German interests in the United States for the duration of the war. Subject to the American consent, the Swiss Government has declared its willingness to assume this responsibility.
Page 575 - This Handbook is intended as a. guide, in simple language, from which the public may learn how to render efficient aid at the moment of injury. Not only are wounds...
Page 587 - THE HERRING FISHERY. By R. Hogarth. is. THE HERRING FISHERIES. By RJ Munro. is. THE HERRING FISHERIES. By HJ Green, is. THE SCOTCH EAST COAST, ORKNEY AND SHETLAND, LEWIS AND BARRA HERRING FISHING. By WS Miln.
Page 142 - During the autumnal heats the infection grew, Tame cattle and the beasts of nature slew, Poisoning the standing lakes, and pools impure; Nor was the foodful grass in fields secure. Strange death! for when the thirsty fire had drunk Their vital blood, and the dry nerves were shrunk, When the contracted limbs...
Page 465 - The 9 oz. of burnt lime may be dissolved in any quantity of water not less than 40 gallons. The solution would be called lime-water. During the burning of the chalk to convert it into lime, the 7 oz.
Page 47 - Sites for building, and for regulating the Dimensions, Form, and Mode of Construction, and the keeping, cleansing, and repairing, of the Pipes, Drains, and other Means of communicating with Sewers...
Page 465 - Ib. of chalk, scarcely soluble at all in water, may be rendered soluble in it by either of two distinct chemical changes — soluble by being deprived entirely of its carbonic acid, when it forms lime-water, and soluble by combining with a second dose of carbonic acid, making up bicarbonate of lime.