Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... dwelling are absolutely inconsistent with healthy life , what more final test of pauperism can there be , or what clearer right to public succour , than that the subject's pecuniary means fall short of viding him other conditions than ...
... dwelling are absolutely inconsistent with healthy life , what more final test of pauperism can there be , or what clearer right to public succour , than that the subject's pecuniary means fall short of viding him other conditions than ...
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... dwellings should cease to be the drainpool of our vast metropolis ; and that the immeasurable filth which now pollutes the stream should be intercepted in its course , and be conveyed to some distant destination , where instead of ...
... dwellings should cease to be the drainpool of our vast metropolis ; and that the immeasurable filth which now pollutes the stream should be intercepted in its course , and be conveyed to some distant destination , where instead of ...
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... dwellings of the poor , of about five tf ings per week . ' On the relative merits or demerits of the two competing systems of supply , I have only to speak so far as their adaptation to sanitary purposes is concerned . In this respect ...
... dwellings of the poor , of about five tf ings per week . ' On the relative merits or demerits of the two competing systems of supply , I have only to speak so far as their adaptation to sanitary purposes is concerned . In this respect ...
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... dwelling - places . Let any one , however , who would do full justice to this frightful subject , visit the courts about Bishopsgate , Aldgate , and the upper portion of Cripplegate , which present some of the worst , though by no means ...
... dwelling - places . Let any one , however , who would do full justice to this frightful subject , visit the courts about Bishopsgate , Aldgate , and the upper portion of Cripplegate , which present some of the worst , though by no means ...
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... dwellings , may more naturally have your approbation . To the latter aim , sooner or later , the sanitary efforts of the Corporation must be directed . There are many parts of the City where great and im- mediate advantage would arise ...
... dwellings , may more naturally have your approbation . To the latter aim , sooner or later , the sanitary efforts of the Corporation must be directed . There are many parts of the City where great and im- mediate advantage would arise ...
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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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