A Handbook of hygiene and sanitary scienceLindsay & Blakiston, 1877 - 490 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
according albuminoid albuminoid ammonia ammonia amongst amount animal ascertained average become bottle calcium carbonate carbonic acid carried cause cesspool charcoal chloride cholera cistern cleaned closet contagium contained cottages cubic centimetres cubic feet cubic space death-rate diarrhoea discharges disinfected distilled water drainage drains drinking water effects efficiently effluvia enteric fever epidemic estimated examined excrement excreta fæcal filtering filth free ammonia fresh air gallon grains heat hospital impurities infected inlets instances lime water medical officer necessary Nessler nitrogen nuisance obtained officer of health organic matter outbreak pail patient phthisis pipes polluted population potassium permanganate precipitate prevent Privy Privy Council public health quantity rainfall regard removed rendered rural districts sanitary authority SECTION sewage sewers soakage soil solution subsoil sufficient sulphuric acid supply surface tion towns trap tube typhus vegetable ventilation village ward water-closets water-supply
Popular passages
Page 420 - Any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill factory dyehouse brewery bakehouse or gaswork, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever; and 8. Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private dwelling-house) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance...
Page 422 - ... exposed for sale, or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and intended for the food of man...
Page 390 - Health of the occurrence within his district of any contagious, infectious, or epidemic disease of a dangerous character ; and whenever it appears to him that the intervention of such officer is necessary in consequence of the existence of any nuisance injurious to health, or of any overcrowding in a house, he shall forthwith inform the medical officer thereof.
Page 431 - ... inspect and examine any animal, carcase, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, or flour, exposed for sale...
Page 417 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family: 6.
Page 390 - ... diseased or unsound or unwholesome or unfit for the food of man, he may seize and carry away the same himself or by an assistant, in order to have the same dealt with by a justice.
Page 461 - Gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection from any such disorder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds...
Page 340 - The whole of the foregoing conclusions combine into one — which may now be affirmed generally, and not only of particular districts — that WETNESS OF SOIL IS A CAUSE OF PHTHISIS TO THE POPULATION LIVING UPON IT.
Page 346 - I am satisfied neither typhus nor enteric fever, nor dysentery, nor cholera, is to be encountered in or around them, whether in epidemic or non-epidemic seasons, more than in any other agricultural district of the neighbourhood.