Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... LESS TO WHAT LITTLE INTRINSIC MERIT THEY MAY HAVE , THAN TO THE YEARS OF ANXIOUS LABOUR THEY REPRESENT : DEEMING IT FIT TO ASSOCIATE MY FATHER'S NAME WITH A RECORD OF ENDEAVOURS TO DO MY DUTY : BECAUSE IN THIS HE HAS BEEN MY BEST ...
... LESS TO WHAT LITTLE INTRINSIC MERIT THEY MAY HAVE , THAN TO THE YEARS OF ANXIOUS LABOUR THEY REPRESENT : DEEMING IT FIT TO ASSOCIATE MY FATHER'S NAME WITH A RECORD OF ENDEAVOURS TO DO MY DUTY : BECAUSE IN THIS HE HAS BEEN MY BEST ...
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... what will be urged by less earnest persons as their pre- text for inaction - that such evils are inalienable from poverty . Let him , in visiting those homes of our labouring population , inquire into the actual rent X PREFACE .
... what will be urged by less earnest persons as their pre- text for inaction - that such evils are inalienable from poverty . Let him , in visiting those homes of our labouring population , inquire into the actual rent X PREFACE .
Page xi
... less insufferable ? be citizens so destitute , that they can afford to live only where they must straightway die - renting the twentieth straw - heap in some lightless fever- bin , or squatting amid rotten soakage , or breathing from ...
... less insufferable ? be citizens so destitute , that they can afford to live only where they must straightway die - renting the twentieth straw - heap in some lightless fever- bin , or squatting amid rotten soakage , or breathing from ...
Page xxix
... less divided attention which he could bring to their study . Amid con- flicting opinions and an apparent scramble for power , he would soon distinguish where might be the strife of jealousy and covetousness , where a truthful zeal for ...
... less divided attention which he could bring to their study . Amid con- flicting opinions and an apparent scramble for power , he would soon distinguish where might be the strife of jealousy and covetousness , where a truthful zeal for ...
Page xxxi
... less with serious medical responsibilities ; and the mischief thus occasioned - especially among the poorer classes , is a matter of notoriety , on which persons engaged in hospital practice would be competent and tolerably impartial ...
... less with serious medical responsibilities ; and the mischief thus occasioned - especially among the poorer classes , is a matter of notoriety , on which persons engaged in hospital practice would be competent and tolerably impartial ...
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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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