Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... perhaps in respect of their consequences , something not far removed from a national sin . In respect of houses - here and there , under local Acts of Parliament , exist sanitary powers , gene- rally of a most defective kind ...
... perhaps in respect of their consequences , something not far removed from a national sin . In respect of houses - here and there , under local Acts of Parliament , exist sanitary powers , gene- rally of a most defective kind ...
Page xxi
... perhaps , to half the intention of the giver . Cod - liver oil may have come from seals or from olives . The two or three drops of prussic acid that we would give for a dose may be nearly twice as strong at one chemist's as at another's ...
... perhaps , to half the intention of the giver . Cod - liver oil may have come from seals or from olives . The two or three drops of prussic acid that we would give for a dose may be nearly twice as strong at one chemist's as at another's ...
Page xxv
... perhaps the jealousies , of rival corporations and of different professional classes ? Home - Secretaries have had little leisure to fathom these things to the bottom . Unex- amined and unadjudicated by any competent au- thority , such ...
... perhaps the jealousies , of rival corporations and of different professional classes ? Home - Secretaries have had little leisure to fathom these things to the bottom . Unex- amined and unadjudicated by any competent au- thority , such ...
Page xxvii
... perhaps I may venture to speak of the almost obvious remedy . ' Almost obvious ' I say ; for surely no one will doubt that this great subject should be dealt with by comprehensive and scientific legislation ; and I hardly see how ...
... perhaps I may venture to speak of the almost obvious remedy . ' Almost obvious ' I say ; for surely no one will doubt that this great subject should be dealt with by comprehensive and scientific legislation ; and I hardly see how ...
Page xxxi
... perhaps that the several bottles on the shelf correspond to the several ailments they can spe- cifically cure . They ask for something " good for a dropsy , " or " good for a wasting , " or " good for a palpitation ; " not knowing how ...
... perhaps that the several bottles on the shelf correspond to the several ailments they can spe- cifically cure . They ask for something " good for a dropsy , " or " good for a wasting , " or " good for a palpitation ; " not knowing how ...
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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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