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Page 43
... sink their prejudices and give the cheap whole - meal or granular wheat - meal bread a fair and un- biased trial . But take them , even as they are , and let them adhere to their fancy for fine white bread ; it is a most astound- ing ...
... sink their prejudices and give the cheap whole - meal or granular wheat - meal bread a fair and un- biased trial . But take them , even as they are , and let them adhere to their fancy for fine white bread ; it is a most astound- ing ...
Page 69
... sinks to remove the waste - water . These sink - pipes should not in any instance enter drain or sewer direct , but deliver outside over a small gulley - head connected with a drain . Town - sewering , sewage - utilization , and river ...
... sinks to remove the waste - water . These sink - pipes should not in any instance enter drain or sewer direct , but deliver outside over a small gulley - head connected with a drain . Town - sewering , sewage - utilization , and river ...
Page 71
... sink to find a side - junction . In the modern sewers side - junctions are to form part of the first construction , so that house - drains may join without any charge of any sort for making such junction . Under the old system of sewers ...
... sink to find a side - junction . In the modern sewers side - junctions are to form part of the first construction , so that house - drains may join without any charge of any sort for making such junction . Under the old system of sewers ...
Page 210
... sink into a house in one of the best parts of Dublin ( indeed , my attention was attracted by the noise ) owing to the filling of the low levels of the sewer by the tide , but such a thing is , I am sure , not now to be met with ; a ...
... sink into a house in one of the best parts of Dublin ( indeed , my attention was attracted by the noise ) owing to the filling of the low levels of the sewer by the tide , but such a thing is , I am sure , not now to be met with ; a ...
Page 225
... sinks in the basement . The contents of all dust - bins , at least in London , resolve themselves in four products : -1st , the " ash , " or that compound of fine ash , boot brushings , house dust , & c . , which is for the most part ...
... sinks in the basement . The contents of all dust - bins , at least in London , resolve themselves in four products : -1st , the " ash , " or that compound of fine ash , boot brushings , house dust , & c . , which is for the most part ...
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Page 154 - 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 404 - 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 349 - The spores of all these parasites may be seen under the microscope, those of smut as small round granules, those of bunt round and reticulated and three or four times the diameter of smut, and those of ergot egg-shaped. Bunt and smut certainly render the flour or bread containing them less wholesome ; the latter is said to produce diarrhoea. Ergot is even more deleterious, exciting a specific action on the involuntary muscles, and if the use of food containing it be long continued resulting in the...
Page 404 - 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 13 - 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 201 - ... 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 309 - Burnt to give light of 12 candles, equal to 120 grains per hour. Cubic feet of oxygen consumed Cubic feet of air consumed Cubic feet of carbonic acid produced Cubic feet of air vitiated Heat produced in Ibs. of water raised 10
Page 15 - 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 192 - But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Page 309 - 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 la candles, equal to 120 grains per hour.