Health in the dwelling. Vol. 4-6. Health in diet. Vol. 7-9. Health in relation to civic life. Vol. 10-12. General hygiene. Vol. 13-16. Conference on education. Vol. 17. Miscellaneous, including papers on Japan. Vol. 18. Miscellaneous, including jury awards and official catalogue. Vol. 19. Miscellaneous, including papers on ChinaW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Popular passages
Page 52 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time: Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 7 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 348 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 535 - ... 6. Any factory, workshop, or workplace (not already under the operation of any general Act for the regulation of factories or bakehouses), not kept in a cleanly state, or not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases vapours dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work...
Page 451 - An Act to place the employment of women, young persons, youths, and children in lace factories under the regulations of the Factories Acts.
Page 459 - shall mean occupied in any handicraft, whether for wages or not, under a master or under a parent as herein defined : " Handicraft " shall mean any manual labour exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to the making any article or part of an article, or in or incidental to the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, or otherwise adapting for sale any article...
Page 432 - Managers must at once comply with any notice of the sanitary authority of the district in which the school is situated, or any two members thereof, acting on the advice of the Medical Officer of Health, requiring them for a specified time, with a view to preventing the spread of disease...
Page 444 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Page 527 - Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse shall be separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water to a water-closet ; (iii.) No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage matter shall have an opening within the bakehouse.
Page 487 - ... dust or other impurities generated in the course of the manufacturing process or handicraft carried on therein that may be injurious to health.