Metropolis' Local Management Act, 1855 (as to cellars) Towns' Improvement Clauses Act, 1847 Section III.-Drains and Drainage; Petties, and other Accumu- Towns' Improvement Clauses Act, 1847 Metropolis' Local Management Act, 1855 Common Lodging-houses Act, 1851 Section IV.-Personal Habits of the People The Contagious Diseases Act, 1866 Clauses 6 and 17, Order of Local Government Board, 1872 FOOD UNFIT FOR THE USE OF MAN. Clause 8, Order of Local Government Board, 1872 The Markets' and Fairs' Clauses Act, 1847 Towns' Improvement Clauses Act, 1847 LIST OF TABLES. TABLE 1. Thickness of walls (The Metropolitan Buildings Act) 2. Thickness of walls (The Metropolitan Buildings Act) 3. Space allowed per inmate in workhouses 4. Oxygen, nitrogen, and carbonic acid in normal and expired air (Foster) .... .... 5. Amount of pure air required per hour for a man and a candle 7. The same (Angus Smith) 8. Weight of a cubic foot of vapour at different temperatures ; the air being saturated 9. Mortality to density of population (Gairdner) 10. State of mortality in the eleven divisions (Registrar-General) 11. Rate of mortality in town and country districts in the ten years 1859 to 1869 (Registrar-General) PAGE 29 32 48 49 50 51 52 54 73 73 74 12. Population, mortality, temperature, and rainfall in eleven chief towns of England, 1869 (Registrar-General) . . 13. Chief elements in our best drinking water 14. Acidity, ammonia, and albumenised ammonia in rain water (Angus Smith) 16, 16A. Mineral matters in deep wells and springs 115 117 118 118 17. Mineral matters in great gathering grounds 119 119 120 18. Mineral matters in rivers 19. Mineral matters in polluted sources 20. Organic carbon and organic nitrogen in the best drinking 21. Organic carbon and organic nitrogen in polluted water.. 22. Amount of nitrogen and nitric acid corresponding to different amounts of ammonia (Wanklyn) 23. Chlorine in good drinking water 122 122 128 131 |