Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... opinion , than against any legislative interference with the price of labour . But I would venture to submit , for the * Twenty years ' daily experience of hospital surgery enables me to say , from personal knowledge , that our wards ...
... opinion , than against any legislative interference with the price of labour . But I would venture to submit , for the * Twenty years ' daily experience of hospital surgery enables me to say , from personal knowledge , that our wards ...
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... 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 the honour and efficiency of medi- cine . I think he could not be long in curing ...
... 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 the honour and efficiency of medi- cine . I think he could not be long in curing ...
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... opinions which might guide Parliament , whether street sewers really require to be avenues for men , whether hard water really be good enough for all ordinary purposes , whether cisternage really be in- dispensable to an urban water ...
... opinions which might guide Parliament , whether street sewers really require to be avenues for men , whether hard water really be good enough for all ordinary purposes , whether cisternage really be in- dispensable to an urban water ...
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... opinions are founded , or to enumerate under each head those infinite individual instances which require sanitary correction . It is my wish at this time to submit to you only such general considerations as may show you the largeness of ...
... opinions are founded , or to enumerate under each head those infinite individual instances which require sanitary correction . It is my wish at this time to submit to you only such general considerations as may show you the largeness of ...
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... opinion . But I can have no hesitation in stating it as a matter greatly to be desired in the City of London , that the noble river which ebbs and flows beneath its dwellings should cease to be the drainpool of our vast metropolis ; and ...
... opinion . But I can have no hesitation in stating it as a matter greatly to be desired in the City of London , that the noble river which ebbs and flows beneath its dwellings should cease to be the drainpool of our vast metropolis ; and ...
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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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