Practical Sanitation: a Handbook for Sanitary Inspectors and Others Interested in SanitationC. Griffin & Company, 1908 - 352 pages |
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... organic matter . These changes involve death and decomposition , and , under certain circumstances , danger to neighbouring life , a danger , however , against which we often possess a remedy in Nature herself , if we study her laws and ...
... organic matter . These changes involve death and decomposition , and , under certain circumstances , danger to neighbouring life , a danger , however , against which we often possess a remedy in Nature herself , if we study her laws and ...
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... organic contamination results . ( 2 ) They should be easily accessible , and , while the sun's rays ought to be excluded , the place where they are fixed must not be dark . These requirements are essential so as to afford every facility ...
... organic contamination results . ( 2 ) They should be easily accessible , and , while the sun's rays ought to be excluded , the place where they are fixed must not be dark . These requirements are essential so as to afford every facility ...
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... organic source , either vegetable or animal , the latter being much the more objectionable of the two . Both may be ... organic matter is dangerous from a health point of view . Presence of Organic Matter - What it means . - In the first ...
... organic source , either vegetable or animal , the latter being much the more objectionable of the two . Both may be ... organic matter is dangerous from a health point of view . Presence of Organic Matter - What it means . - In the first ...
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... organic contamination is present , chemistry cannot go - its exact nature cannot thus be indicated . Were a standard to be fixed on such evidence as this , it would amount , in some cases , to saying that a limited number of typhoid ...
... organic contamination is present , chemistry cannot go - its exact nature cannot thus be indicated . Were a standard to be fixed on such evidence as this , it would amount , in some cases , to saying that a limited number of typhoid ...
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... organic matter present in the case of the farm - house well came within the chemical limit of purity , it exceeded by nearly four times the quantity present in the two wells that were selected for com- parison . Where , then , did this ...
... organic matter present in the case of the farm - house well came within the chemical limit of purity , it exceeded by nearly four times the quantity present in the two wells that were selected for com- parison . Where , then , did this ...
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