Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 6. köide

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Sanitary Institute, 1885

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Page 405 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 150 - Then we can cause the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and cast out devils, even raise the dead to life.
Page 398 - Certainly a man has a right to do what he likes with his own, but then every man who does so must make up his mind to certain little penalties.
Page 398 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old; but the sinner, being a hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Page 403 - Another custom which had its origin in Arabia and Egypt, and which was instituted by Moses as an edict to be religiously observed, was the burning of incense. They offered to God a part of that which they held to be most precious, and at the same time fumigated the wearing apparel of the worshippers, and to some extent the air itself, and by so doing diminished the chances of the evil likely to arise from the crowded assemblies, which were then held at stated times, for the purposes of religious...
Page 15 - That in the opinion of this meeting the sanitary condition of this country is still very unsatisfactory, and that further legislation is necessary with a view to its improvement ; and that for the purpose of collecting and imparting information upon all matters connected with the subject of • Public Health ' a Society be now formed, to be styled ' The Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.
Page 197 - ... premises ascertained in the manner by this Act prescribed with respect to general district rates ; moreover they may enter into agreements for supplying water on such terms as may be agreed on...
Page 445 - All general rules relative to designs* heretofore made by the Board of Trade under the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Acts, 1883 to 1902,, and in force on the 31st day of December, 1907, shall be and they are hereby repealed as from that date, without prejudice, nevertheless, to anything done under such rules, or to any application or other matter then pending.
Page 17 - The rules of the Senate and House, insofar as they are applicable, shall govern the committee and its subcommittees. The rules of the committee, insofar as they are applicable, shall be the rules of any subcommittee of the committee. RULE 2. The meetings of the committee shall be held at such times and in such places as the chairman may designate, or at such times as a quorum of the committee may request in writing, with adequate advance notice provided to all members of the committee.
Page 305 - SHOWING THE OXYGEN CONSUMED, THE CARBONIC ACID PRODUCED, AND THE AIR VITIATED, BY THE COMBUSTION OF CERTAIN BODIES BURNT SO AS TO GIVE THE LIGHT OF 12 STANDARD SPERM CANDLES, EACH CANDLE BURNING AT THE RATE OF 120 GRAINS PER HOUR :— Burnt to give light of 12 candles, equal to 120 grains per hour.

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