Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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Page xxiv
... becoming eligible for licence , vary in so remarkable a degree among the many corpo- rate bodies which are fountains of this honour , that the credentials conferred have really little meaning , apart from a context which the public is ...
... becoming eligible for licence , vary in so remarkable a degree among the many corpo- rate bodies which are fountains of this honour , that the credentials conferred have really little meaning , apart from a context which the public is ...
Page xxvii
... become , but likewise for their progress from time to time to the level of contem- porary science , for their completion where fragmen- tary , for their harmonisation where discordant . If as is rumoured , the approaching re - constitu ...
... become , but likewise for their progress from time to time to the level of contem- porary science , for their completion where fragmen- tary , for their harmonisation where discordant . If as is rumoured , the approaching re - constitu ...
Page xxx
... becomes the duty of a government , on behalf of the public , to provide . For anything beyond this ( except in one particular case ) the matter might take its natural course . No law can supersede a necessity for common sense in the ...
... becomes the duty of a government , on behalf of the public , to provide . For anything beyond this ( except in one particular case ) the matter might take its natural course . No law can supersede a necessity for common sense in the ...
Page xxxii
... become invaluable as an English institution , in respect of many matters touched upon in this sketch ; and perhaps with some division of duties , into such as would best belong to a General Board of the kind , and such as might properly ...
... become invaluable as an English institution , in respect of many matters touched upon in this sketch ; and perhaps with some division of duties , into such as would best belong to a General Board of the kind , and such as might properly ...
Page xxxiv
... become Local Boards of Health under such a consti- tution as I have sketched . If , on the other hand , our present non- municipal system were to be continued , probably our several Boards of Guardians might seem specially proper to act ...
... become Local Boards of Health under such a consti- tution as I have sketched . If , on the other hand , our present non- municipal system were to be continued , probably our several Boards of Guardians might seem specially proper to act ...
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Act of Parliament advantage adverted annual arise arrangements atmosphere Author average Bishopsgate Board of Health burial carbonate causes Cemetery cesspools Cheaper Edition chemical Cholera circumstances City of London classes clause cleanliness consideration Court Cripplegate dead death-rate deaths decomposition diarrhoea disease distribution district doubt drainage duty dwellings effect endeavoured endemic enumerated epidemic erysipelas established evils exist extramural fever gentlemen ground habits hard water Haslemere house-drainage houses important infection influence injurious inmates instances interment J. W. DONALDSON jurisdiction labour likewise lodging-house London Company ment metropolis metropolitan mortality nuisance Nuisances Removal observe occasion Octavo offensive organisation period persons pestilence poison poor poorer population practical present prevailed principle probably proportion purposes putrefaction quarter end recognised referred regard regulations relating removal render Report require requisite respect river sanitary condition sanitary improvement Second Edition soakage soil sub-district supply of water tion typhus ventilation water-supply West London Union
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