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Page 118
... disease . There are many remarkable facts on record showing that the old notion of the contagious- ness of cancer has been too hastily thrust aside . The author has made some investigations of the causes of cancer , which are at present ...
... disease . There are many remarkable facts on record showing that the old notion of the contagious- ness of cancer has been too hastily thrust aside . The author has made some investigations of the causes of cancer , which are at present ...
Page 130
... disease did not spread ; and now ( 1875 ) we may be said for the present to be cholera free . The following is the modern chronology of the disease to 1871 : Cholera appeared in Sunderland on the 26th of October 1831 . It was first ...
... disease did not spread ; and now ( 1875 ) we may be said for the present to be cholera free . The following is the modern chronology of the disease to 1871 : Cholera appeared in Sunderland on the 26th of October 1831 . It was first ...
Page 133
... disease , and preventing the spread of cholera and such other diseases , as well on the seas , rivers , and waters of the United Kingdom , and on the high seas within three miles of the coasts thereof , as on land ; and may declare by ...
... disease , and preventing the spread of cholera and such other diseases , as well on the seas , rivers , and waters of the United Kingdom , and on the high seas within three miles of the coasts thereof , as on land ; and may declare by ...
Page 142
... diseases , so increased the death - rate as to make it appear that a tropical climate was extremely inimical to the ... disease ; and if the tem- perature of a person rises in fever or from some other cause to 107 ° or 108 ° , and ...
... diseases , so increased the death - rate as to make it appear that a tropical climate was extremely inimical to the ... disease ; and if the tem- perature of a person rises in fever or from some other cause to 107 ° or 108 ° , and ...
Page 147
... disease has been propagated . Judging from Stark's observa- tions on the power of absorbing odours , the probability is that contagion is absorbed after the same manner . Stark found that the ab- sorption of odours was in proportion to ...
... disease has been propagated . Judging from Stark's observa- tions on the power of absorbing odours , the probability is that contagion is absorbed after the same manner . Stark found that the ab- sorption of odours was in proportion to ...
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Page 192 - drain" shall mean and include any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom, with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : The word " sewer" shall mean and include sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 479 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe com mutation rentcharge (if any), and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent...
Page 21 - Where the drug or food is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in force, and is supplied in the state required by the specification of the patent ; (3.) Where the food or drug is compounded as in this Act mentioned ; (4.) Where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation.
Page 404 - Any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain, or ashpit so foul or in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health :
Page 404 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Page 370 - ... and whenever it appears to him that the intervention of such officer is necessary in consequence of the existence of any nuisance injurious to health, or of any overcrowding in a house, he shall forthwith inform the medical officer thereof.
Page 21 - No person shall mix, colour, stain, or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, colour, stain, or powder any article of food with any ingredient or material so as to render the article injurious to health, with intent that the same may be sold in that state...
Page 329 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 537 - Sewer includes sewers and drains of every description except drains to which the word drain interpreted as aforesaid applies, and except drains in or under the control of any authority having the management of roads, and not being a local authority under this Act.
Page 370 - He shall enter from day to day, in a book to be provided by the sanitary authority, particulars of his inspections and of the action taken by him in the execution of his duties. He shall also keep a book or books, to be provided by the sanitary authority, so arranged as to form, as far as possible, a continuous record of the sanitary condition of each of the premises in respect of •which any action...