Health primers. Eds. J.L. Down [and others. 10 vols.].1878 |
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... influence of the media in which we live , as to the accidental liability of exposure to morbific agencies current among populations , such as the contagions of the catching diseases , as , for example , scarlet - PREMATURE DEATH . 13.
... influence of the media in which we live , as to the accidental liability of exposure to morbific agencies current among populations , such as the contagions of the catching diseases , as , for example , scarlet - PREMATURE DEATH . 13.
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... influence in producing the very fatal form of disease known as grinder's - consumption , is one of the most painful studies in the whole range of industrial diseases . In the cotton manufacture the work is largely carried on in rooms ...
... influence in producing the very fatal form of disease known as grinder's - consumption , is one of the most painful studies in the whole range of industrial diseases . In the cotton manufacture the work is largely carried on in rooms ...
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... influence of industrial occupations upon its prevalence , and its occurrence is notably allied to sedentary labours pursued in ill - ventilated rooms , amidst fouled atmospheres . But it has been recently ascertained that there is a ...
... influence of industrial occupations upon its prevalence , and its occurrence is notably allied to sedentary labours pursued in ill - ventilated rooms , amidst fouled atmospheres . But it has been recently ascertained that there is a ...
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... matter of course . Now , all the infections are influenced in their spread and prevalence , although in different degrees , by certain well- understood conditions , some peculiar to the individual , some PREMATURE DEATH . 25.
... matter of course . Now , all the infections are influenced in their spread and prevalence , although in different degrees , by certain well- understood conditions , some peculiar to the individual , some PREMATURE DEATH . 25.
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... influence ; and the civil popula- tions of the districts occupied by the opposing armies , and to which the sick , the wounded , and prisoners have been sent , are now contributing to a mortality which , in the end , will probably prove ...
... influence ; and the civil popula- tions of the districts occupied by the opposing armies , and to which the sick , the wounded , and prisoners have been sent , are now contributing to a mortality which , in the end , will probably prove ...
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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.