Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... materials for their organisation . If , accord- ing to suggestions lately ventilated , municipal institutions should be given to the parts of London hitherto without them ; these new cor- porations would probably have sanitary functions ...
... materials for their organisation . If , accord- ing to suggestions lately ventilated , municipal institutions should be given to the parts of London hitherto without them ; these new cor- porations would probably have sanitary functions ...
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... materials which may aid you to estimate the sanitary defects of the City , I subjoin two tables * illustrating the relative mortality of the several sub - districts . The first of these tables indicates numerically the local ...
... materials which may aid you to estimate the sanitary defects of the City , I subjoin two tables * illustrating the relative mortality of the several sub - districts . The first of these tables indicates numerically the local ...
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... materials , I should conjecture that some thousands of houses within the City still have cesspools connected with them . It requires little medical knowledge to understand that animals will scarcely thrive in an atmo sphere of their own ...
... materials , I should conjecture that some thousands of houses within the City still have cesspools connected with them . It requires little medical knowledge to understand that animals will scarcely thrive in an atmo sphere of their own ...
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... material , ought , under any circumstances , to be tolerated within a town . 1. First , in regard to slaughter - houses , I may remind you that , on the 23rd of January last , when your Hon . Commission first met under the new Act of ...
... material , ought , under any circumstances , to be tolerated within a town . 1. First , in regard to slaughter - houses , I may remind you that , on the 23rd of January last , when your Hon . Commission first met under the new Act of ...
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... above it , convey the materials of decomposition to a distance ; and if the parti- cular slaughter - houses be placed on a high level amidst the surrounding City , so that their drainage be effectual and 26 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT .
... above it , convey the materials of decomposition to a distance ; and if the parti- cular slaughter - houses be placed on a high level amidst the surrounding City , so that their drainage be effectual and 26 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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