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ABEL, Sir F., his plan of purifying water, 510-513
Accidents in mines, great number of, 353

Accrington, notification of infectious diseases at, 236
Aëration, a desideratum of drinking water, 462, 469
Air, as an infecting medium, 145, 146

Alcohol, high death rates due to, 125

Algæ, confervoid, great numbers of, in river water, 491
Alluvium, how far permeable, 369

Alyn river, case of alleged abstraction of water from, 397, 398
Ambulance, War Office definition of, 316; need of proper, in towns, 325; for
infectious cases, 325; ambulance carriages of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, 326; the American, 327; at Liverpool, 327, 328; ambulance
material not so valuable as trained men, 327; future of ambulance work,
331; a permanent museum of ambulance material needed, 332; value of
ambulances in small-pox, 334; systems of Boston, New York and
Philadelphia, 347; ambulance instruction, value of to policemen, firemen,
shipbuilders, sailors, soldiers, mothers, railway porters, miners, 320, 321;
individual examples of, 329, 330; ambulances save limbs, 350;
ambulance school needed in every village, 348; evils of want of them,
350-352; save money of employers, 353

Ambulance volunteers in Kent, Yorkshire, at Leicester, Leamington, &c., 329
Ambulance wharves, 339

America, ambulance system in, 347; provision for accidents on railroads in,
347

Animals met with in fresh water, the chief, 488; proportion of near Thames
sewage outfalls, 489

Anthrax fever, 119, 120, 135; communicated by flies, 153

Antwerp waterworks, 509-511, 517

Aqueduct at Paris, 533

Architects, often deficient in sanitary knowledge, 35, 40, 44

"Ashford litter," the, 328, 329

BACTERIA, function of, 263; brought up by worms, 309

Bagshot beds, as source of water supply, 368, 406

Ballard v. Tomlinson, case cited, 373

Bath rooms, waste pipes of, improperly fixed, 59

Bath water, &c., proper disposal of, 40

Battle-fields, cremation on, 294, 295

Basements objectionable, 71, 72

Birmingham, notification of infectious disease at, 222; fire brigade at, 553
Bischof, Professor, his method of purifying water, 509-512, 517

Blackburn, notification of infectious disease at, 237

Bolton, Sir F., extract from his report, 417

Bond, Dr., on the 'The Home of the Agricultural Labourer,' quoted, 58
Bond, Dr. Francis, his view as to notification of infectious disease, 208
Boulder-clay in relation to water supply, 368, 369

"Bournes," what, 440

Boston (U.S.A.), compulsory notification of disease at, 253
Bovine tuberculosis, discussion of, 179, 189, 196
Bradford, notification of infectious disease at, 224
Brick-earth, in relation to water supply, 367, 368

Brighton, water supply of, 442

British Association, Underground Water Committee of, 381
Brooks, Shirley, a founder of the Cremation Society, 287

Browne, Sir T., on cremation, 302

Brussels, compulsory notification of disease at, 254

Building new houses, importance of regulating, 31

Burial, a rational process of, 270; Mr. Seymour Haden's plan, 274; deep sea

burial, 275, fire-burial, 275-311. (See also Interment, Dead.)

Burial grounds not unhealthy, 309

Butter, as a source of infection, 172, 173

Bye-laws, Model, of the Local Government Board, 31

CALVES, throat disease of, 159, 182

Cameron, Dr., his speech in Parliament on cremation, 286

Carbon, proportion of in water, 498, 499, 500

Centralisation needed, 88, 89

Chadwick, Mr. E., (C.B.), his report on Interment in Towns, 268

Chalk, area of as source of Water Supply, 364-373, 439, 597; parts with
water slowly, 383; extent of areas from the Medway to the Meon, 385;
result of a survey of the chalk in Sussex, 387; contamination of water
from the chalk, 396; borings in chalk supplemented by driving adits,

441

Charcoal as filtering and purifying agent, 595, 596

Chaumont de, Professor, opinion on cremation, 287

Chicken-pox conveyed by clothes, 148; by letters, 149; mistaken for small-
pox, 187

Cholera traced to polluted water, 151

Cinerary urns, 291

Cisterns, importance of position of 29, 30; defects of, 416, 417; dangers of

456-458, 460, 514, 516

Cleansing of houses, how enforced, 10; powers as to in rural districts, 55

Clergy, the, their opinion on cremation, 299

Clothes as infecting medium, 148; to cattle, 198

Closets, defects of, 62-64

Commissioners of Sewers, their committee on cremation, 286, 299

"Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act," authorities administering, 165
Contagious disease, notice of, how enforced, 11

Cooking, should be done by gas, 36

Cottage hospitals, value of, 317, 353

Coralline crag, as source of water supply, 368
Cornbrash, marks sites of villages, 375

Corpses, infection from, how conveyed, 266

Cremation not illegal, 283; not now considered impious, 276-7; decision of
Mr. Justice Stephen, 277, 280; possible concealment of crime by, 277,
301; to be performed after coroner's certificate, 278; cost of, 286, 289,
291; speeches in Parliament on, 286; cremation versus inhumation,
divisions on, 281; objections to cremation disappearing, 281; speeches in
favour of, in Germany and Italy, 282; improper cremations, 295;
cremation should be compulsory after death from infectious disease, 308;
report of committee of the Commissioners of Sewers, 286, 299

Cremation Society of England, the, 283, 285, 286; when founded, 287;
founders of, 287

Cremation Societies of France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, America,
291

Crematorium at Woking, 283, 285, 286, 290: at Gotha, 291, 293; at Milan,
at Rome, 291; of Mr. Le Mon, 297; temporary crematory in
Dorsetshire, 293; design of Sir W. Siemens for a crematory, 292;
ancient Roman crematories, 293; various patterns of crematories, 292
Crime, possible concealment of, by cremation, 277, 289, 298, 301
Cubic space, difficulty of securing adequate, on account of expense, 87; cubic

space in cowsheds, 170

Cyclops, fecundity of, 489

DAIRIES, inspection of, 180

"Dairies, cowsheds and milk shops order," the, 164, 193

Dairy farms, requirements as to desirable, 170

"Damp course" indispensable, 43, 72

Dead, disposal of the, different methods of, 262; nature's methods, 262;
simple exposure, 263; by Parsees, 263; by Chatham Islanders, 264;
sickening abuses of earth burial, 265; burial of still-born children, 268;
rational process of earth-burial, a, 270; diseases spread by burial, 290,
291, 305. (See also Cremation.)

Desmids in water, great numbers of, 491

Diarrhoea from Thames water, 517

Diatoms in water, great numbers of, 491

Dilke, Sir C., his opinion on notification of disease, 246
Diphtheria, causes of, 14, 17, 48, 147, 152, 158, 174, 182

"Disconnecting the drains," 28, 47, 48, 75

Disinfection, importance of, 186; compulsory at Newcastle on-Tyne, 239
Distillation of water, 484; on ocean steamers, 485

Domestic servants, diseases of, 128, 129

Drainage, "combined," evils of, 33; decision of Court of Chancery as to, 331
Draining, how enforced, 11

Drains, brick, ought to be re-constructed, 19; "disconnecting" drains, 28.
47, 48, 75; defects of drains in rural districts, 59

Dress, a fever proof, 186

"Dumb wells," use of, 381-383, 392; care needed in construction of, 384;
dumb-wells in India, 395; useless in Hull district, 448

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Dundee, notification of infectious disease at, 224

Dust, removal of, best arrangements for, 20; importance and difficulty of, 32,
33, 36, 38, 47, 48; amount of "dust" ought to be diminished, 36, 43
Dust-bins, best form of, 20; should be abolished, 48, 74

EARTH closets, neglect to use properly, 65

Economy in sanitary work needed, 79, 80, 81, 82, 93

Edinburgh, notification of infectious disease in, 235-6

Education, (sanitary), need of, 76, 79, 80, 85, 94

Egeling, Dr., his communication as to law of notification of disease in Holland,
256-259

Embalmment, how performed, 278; value of, for identification of remains in
case of doubt, 278, 305

Enteric fever, cause of, 34; difficulty of tracing cause, 152; in Cornwall, 157;
at Southsea Barracks, 176, 177; communicated by milk, 174, 189, 254
Entomostraca, characteristics of, 489; excreta of, 490
Examination of Local Sanitary Officers, 90

FARQUHARSON, Dr., M.P., his speech on cremation, 286
Fever. See Enteric, Scarlet, Typhus.

File makers, disease of, 126

Filter beds for village water supply, 413; forms of, 437, 8

Filtration at Wakefield and at Antwerp, 415; speed of filtration, 438; through
iron, 509-511, 517; worthlessness of filters, 519, 520, 524; perfect filter,
how obtainable, 520

FIRE EXTINCTION, WATER SUPPLY FOR : extent of losses by fire, 548; requisites
of supply, 549; hydrants and fire plugs, 550; pressure per inch required
for hydrants, 550; hydrants superior to fire-engines, 551; the Liverpool
fire brigade, 551; its cost, 552; statistics of the Glasgow, Manchester,
Dublin, and Birmingham brigades, 552, 553; the New York brigade,
553, 554; the London brigade, 554, 555; Select Committee on fires in
the metropolis, 556; plan of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 557;
great increase in distance travelled by metropolitan fire-engines, 558;
increase in cost of the brigade, 558; this cost is lower than in Paris and
New York, 559; statistics of the Paris brigade, 559; comparison of cost
of fire service in hydranted and unhydranted cities, 560-562; evils of the
London system, 577, 578

Fires, danger of, 25, 39

Flannel screens, use of, 134

Flats, dangers of, 70; need not be unhealthy, 98

Flax dressers, disease of, 116

Floors, need of well laying, 72, 73

Frankland, Dr., his Sixth Report of Rivers Pollution Commission, 423
effects of his theory of oxidation of river water, 429

Funerals, objections to pomp of, 279; should be early in the morning, 279

GAILLET and Huet process for softening water, 484

Gas, value of, for cooking, 36

Germs of disease, question of their removal by infusoria, 491

Glacial drift, the, 366, 367

Glasgow, water supply of, 431-3; dyspepsia from, 446, 516
Glovers, disease of, 117

Greenock, notification of infectious disease at, 227
Greensand as source of water supply, 395

Grinders, disease of, 116

Guardians, Boards of, owners of bad cottage property, 57

HARD water, effects of, 426; geologic formations yielding, 426

Hardness of water, definition of, 468; temporary and permanent, 469; health
statistics in favour of, 470; soap test of, 476

Hastings, zymotic disease at, stamped out by employment of a woman teacher
for the sick poor, 251

Hastings, Mr., his Bill for notification of infectious disease, 211; his silence
on the question at Huddersfield, 212

Havre, notification of infectious disease at, 254

Head of water, how measured, 378

Hertfordshire, water systems of, 386; villages without water supply in, 387
Holland, law as to notification of disease in, 256-259

Hospital accommodation, supplied where infectious disease is duly notified, 229 ;
useless without notification, 229; provision of, more important than
notification of disease, 249

Hotels, sanitary examination of, 229; proposed sanatorium for hotel servants,
253

Huddersfield, notification of infectious disease at, 208

Hydrogeology, importance of, 386, 389, 394; value of hydrogeological survey,

459

Hygiene, Royal Italian Society of, 294

"IMPURITY" (organic), a misleading term in connection with water supply,

506, 507

Incubation of infectious disease, 144

INDUSTRIAL DISEASES, 101-141

INFECTIOUS DISEASE, notice of, how enforced, 11; spread of, by milk, 154-

199; compulsory notification of, discussed, 200-259

Infusoria in the Medway, 491; their action on disease germs, 491

Insanitary House, the model, in the Exhibition, 27

Inspection (sanitary), importance of, 35; defects of the present, 77
Interments, Report of Board of Health (1850-51) on, 296

Ironstone, marking sites of villages, 375

Irritants to the skin, 113-14; to the lungs, 115

Itch, the grocers', bakers', etc., 113

JAIL-FEVER, 187

KAY, Mr. Justice, decision as to cremation, 283

Kennet, pollution of the, 454

Kensington Vestry, agree to principle of notification of infectious disease, 246

Koch, Dr., his method of cultivating spores, 513

Kolapore, Rajah of, cremation of his remains, 292

LACE-MAKERS, diseases of, 117

Lake water, organic matter in, 499
Lancaster, water supply of, 429-431

Landlords, difficulties of, 11; bad, 49

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