Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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Page xxvii
... complete statement of his knowledge on the matter in hand . Having said so much on the defects and the wrongs of our existing sanitary condition , perhaps I may venture to speak of the almost obvious remedy . ' Almost obvious ' I say ...
... complete statement of his knowledge on the matter in hand . Having said so much on the defects and the wrongs of our existing sanitary condition , perhaps I may venture to speak of the almost obvious remedy . ' Almost obvious ' I say ...
Page xxxiv
... complete sanitary organisation , consultative and executive . I have one word more to say about the Reports . They have been received by the public with such * It would seem premature to discuss what might be the best constitution of ...
... complete sanitary organisation , consultative and executive . I have one word more to say about the Reports . They have been received by the public with such * It would seem premature to discuss what might be the best constitution of ...
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... complete , then obviously their influence must be sought for , not so much in any special aggravation of the local mortality , as in certain remoter effects of their diffused emanation ; in effects , namely , which are discover- able ...
... complete , then obviously their influence must be sought for , not so much in any special aggravation of the local mortality , as in certain remoter effects of their diffused emanation ; in effects , namely , which are discover- able ...
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... complete closure of their coffins , to remain unchanged for ages , like the embalmed bodies of Egypt and Peru ; or at least - if perhaps they undergo some interior and invisible change ( as the chrysalis within its sheath ) that there ...
... complete closure of their coffins , to remain unchanged for ages , like the embalmed bodies of Egypt and Peru ; or at least - if perhaps they undergo some interior and invisible change ( as the chrysalis within its sheath ) that there ...
Page 32
... organic contents through deeper levels , till their oxidation is complete and their new inodorous combinations are discharged in watery solution . - J . S. , 1854 . Intramural burial is an evil , no doubt , that 32 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT .
... organic contents through deeper levels , till their oxidation is complete and their new inodorous combinations are discharged in watery solution . - J . S. , 1854 . Intramural burial is an evil , no doubt , that 32 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT .
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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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