The Health Exhibition Literature: Health in relation to civic lifeprinted and published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition and for the Council of the Society of Arts by William Clowes, 1884 |
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Page 12
... pipes water can be drawn from the main instead of from a cistern . I am also informed by an engi- neer to a company that the waste of water is less on this plan , as the fittings differ to a certain extent from those used with an ...
... pipes water can be drawn from the main instead of from a cistern . I am also informed by an engi- neer to a company that the waste of water is less on this plan , as the fittings differ to a certain extent from those used with an ...
Page 13
... pipe of adjoining houses , or any alterations or repairs outside this stop - cock , the inhabitants of a whole street are sometimes left without water . Repairs to a pumping - engine also cause the same inconvenience . As many houses in ...
... pipe of adjoining houses , or any alterations or repairs outside this stop - cock , the inhabitants of a whole street are sometimes left without water . Repairs to a pumping - engine also cause the same inconvenience . As many houses in ...
Page 14
... pipe , that children climbed on the seat and interfered with its working . The ball - tap often ceases to shut off the water in consequence of the arm connecting the ball with the tap becoming straightened from use , so that the poor ...
... pipe , that children climbed on the seat and interfered with its working . The ball - tap often ceases to shut off the water in consequence of the arm connecting the ball with the tap becoming straightened from use , so that the poor ...
Page 15
... pipe having an internal diameter of an inch and a quarter , will give a sufficient flush provided at least two gallons are discharged at once . The down - pipe in the poorer class of houses is usually too small , and the handle is not ...
... pipe having an internal diameter of an inch and a quarter , will give a sufficient flush provided at least two gallons are discharged at once . The down - pipe in the poorer class of houses is usually too small , and the handle is not ...
Page 16
... pipes and taps will not stand the pressure attending the use of a full - sized ferule , and much waste consequently results . I find that an eighth - of - an - inch ferule , if the pressure at the waterworks be good , and the house be ...
... pipes and taps will not stand the pressure attending the use of a full - sized ferule , and much waste consequently results . I find that an eighth - of - an - inch ferule , if the pressure at the waterworks be good , and the house be ...
Common terms and phrases
ALFRED CARPENTER ambulance amongst animals beds Board body burial carbonic carbonic acid carried cause chalk cholera cisterns compulsory Conference considerable Contagious Diseases Animals contamination cost cremation danger dead death diphtheria domestic doubt drains duty enteric fever epidemic Exhibition fact feet filter fire FISHERIES gallons ground hard water hospital hydrants important impurities infectious diseases instance lime Loch Katrine London means Medical Officer meter metropolis Metropolitan Metropolitan Board milk mortality necessary notification obtained Officer of Health organic matter paper patient persons pipes poisons polluted population practice present pumped purposes quantity question referred regard removal reservoirs result river rural districts sanitary arrangements sanitary authorities scarlet fever sewage sewer small-pox soft water softening spread square miles sufficient supply of water surface taken Thames tion town typhoid fever typhus ventilation villages waste water companies water supply
Popular passages
Page 254 - Toiling for leave to live ; and how he urged The great-eyed oxen through the flaming hours, Goading their velvet flanks : then marked he, too, How lizard fed on ant, and snake on him, And kite on both ; and how the fish-hawk robbed The fish-tiger of that which it had seized ; The shrike chasing the bulbul, which did chase The jewelled butterflies ; till everywhere Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain, Life living upon death.
Page 2 - For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family : 2.
Page 142 - During the autumnal heats the infection grew, Tame cattle and the beasts of nature slew, Poisoning the standing lakes, and pools impure; Nor was the foodful grass in fields secure. Strange death! for when the thirsty fire had drunk Their vital blood, and the dry nerves were shrunk, When the contracted limbs...
Page 461 - Ib. of chalk in water with 7 oz. additional of carbonic acid— that is to say, with as much more carbonic acid as the chalk itself contains — the chalk becomes readily soluble in water, and when so dissolved, is called bicarbonate of lime. If the quantity of water containing the 1 Ib.
Page 461 - The 9 oz. of burnt lime may be dissolved in any quantity of water not less than 40 gallons. The solution would be called lime-water. During the burning of the chalk to convert it into lime, the 7 oz.
Page 43 - Sites for building, and for regulating the Dimensions, Form, and Mode of Construction, and the keeping, cleansing, and repairing, of the Pipes, Drains, and other Means of communicating with Sewers...
Page 2 - For the inspection of such houses, and the keeping the same in a cleanly and wholesome state : 4. For enforcing therein the provision of privy accommodation and other appliances and means of cleanliness in proportion to the number of lodgings and occupiers, and the cleansing and ventilation of the common passages and staircases : 5. For the cleansing and lime-whiting at stated times of such premises...
Page 497 - Having carefully considered all the information we have been able to collect, we see no evidence to lead us to believe that the water now supplied by the Companies is not generally good and wholesome.
Page 409 - That in order to secure uniformity and completeness of action, each catchment area should, as a general rule, be placed under a single body of Conservators, who should be responsible for maintaining the river from its source to its outfall in an efficient state.
Page 282 - They are as follows :— 1. An application in writing must be made by the friends or executors of the deceased — unless it has been made by the deceased person himself during life — stating that it was the wish of the deceased to be cremated after death.