Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... observe that , in commenting on this mortality , I purposely avoid instituting any comparison between it and the mortality of those urban districts which immediately adjoin us : for the object of my comparison is not to illustrate how ...
... observe that , in commenting on this mortality , I purposely avoid instituting any comparison between it and the mortality of those urban districts which immediately adjoin us : for the object of my comparison is not to illustrate how ...
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... observation and expe- rience , what seem to me the chief influences prevailing against life within the City of London . My remarks for this purpose will fall under the following heads , viz.:- I. Defective house - drainage ; II ...
... observation and expe- rience , what seem to me the chief influences prevailing against life within the City of London . My remarks for this purpose will fall under the following heads , viz.:- I. Defective house - drainage ; II ...
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... observe that , among persons who are ill - informed on the subject , there exist erroneous notions as to the preservation of bodies under these circumstances . They are supposed , from the complete closure of their coffins , to remain ...
... observe that , among persons who are ill - informed on the subject , there exist erroneous notions as to the preservation of bodies under these circumstances . They are supposed , from the complete closure of their coffins , to remain ...
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... observe , that these local con- ditions are utterly incompatible with health . Among their dense population , it is rare to see any other appearance than that of squalid sickness and misery ; and the children , who are reproduced with ...
... observe , that these local con- ditions are utterly incompatible with health . Among their dense population , it is rare to see any other appearance than that of squalid sickness and misery ; and the children , who are reproduced with ...
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... observe that I am far from in- sinuating , or suspecting , that the majority of the poorer population of the city has fallen to that extreme debasement which I have just illustrated as affecting some portion ( per- haps not an ...
... observe that I am far from in- sinuating , or suspecting , that the majority of the poorer population of the city has fallen to that extreme debasement which I have just illustrated as affecting some portion ( per- haps not an ...
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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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