Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... particular institu- tions , that their degrees and licences are attained with a very inglorious facility ; and when it is recollected that the issuing of such testimonials is a source - sometimes a chief source of income to the ...
... particular institu- tions , that their degrees and licences are attained with a very inglorious facility ; and when it is recollected that the issuing of such testimonials is a source - sometimes a chief source of income to the ...
Page xxvi
... particular questions to skilled impartial adjudicators , the uniform practice is , that scientific men are retained on opposite sides , to support partisan interests . The advantages , such as they are , which belong to this system ...
... particular questions to skilled impartial adjudicators , the uniform practice is , that scientific men are retained on opposite sides , to support partisan interests . The advantages , such as they are , which belong to this system ...
Page xxx
... particular case ) the matter might take its natural course . No law can supersede a necessity for common sense in the subject ; and medicine , I think , requires no protection . Let my neighbour , by all means , if he desire it , send ...
... particular case ) the matter might take its natural course . No law can supersede a necessity for common sense in the subject ; and medicine , I think , requires no protection . Let my neighbour , by all means , if he desire it , send ...
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... particular district , or to a particular slaughter - house , and says that the mortality of the district is an average one ; or he points to Mr. A. or Mr. B. - the butcher or the butcher's man , saying , ' Who can be healthier than A ...
... particular district , or to a particular slaughter - house , and says that the mortality of the district is an average one ; or he points to Mr. A. or Mr. B. - the butcher or the butcher's man , saying , ' Who can be healthier than A ...
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... particular case , evil undoubtedly it is in all , and an unmitigated evil . The atmosphere in which epidemic and infectious dis- eases most readily diffuse their poison and multiply their victims is one , as I have already often stated ...
... particular case , evil undoubtedly it is in all , and an unmitigated evil . The atmosphere in which epidemic and infectious dis- eases most readily diffuse their poison and multiply their victims is one , as I have already often stated ...
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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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