Health primers. Eds. J.L. Down [and others. 10 vols.].1878 |
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Page 78 - 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 78 - Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private dwellinghouse) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance...
Page 75 - ... for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and intended for the food of man...
Page 78 - 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...
Page 78 - That the rental of the building was enhanced by reason of the same being used for illegal purposes, or being so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates: or 2.
Page 77 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
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Page 63 - ... and other filth. And with this state of things, be it on large or on small scale, two chief sorts of danger to life arise; one, that volatile effluvia from the refuse pollute the surrounding air and everything which it contains ; the other, that the liquid parts of the refuse pass by soakage or leakage into the surrounding soil, to mingle there of course in whatever water the soil yields, and in certain cases thus to occasion the deadliest pollution of wells and springs.