Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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Page ix
... population . This national prevalence of sanitary neglect is a very grievous fact ; and though I pretend to no official concern in anything beyond the City boun- daries , I cannot forego the present opportunity of saying a few words to ...
... population . This national prevalence of sanitary neglect is a very grievous fact ; and though I pretend to no official concern in anything beyond the City boun- daries , I cannot forego the present opportunity of saying a few words to ...
Page x
... population : whether the Legislature , which his voice helps to constitute , is doing all that might be done to palliate these wrongs ; whether it be not a jarring discord in the civilisation we boast- a worse than pagan savageness in ...
... population : whether the Legislature , which his voice helps to constitute , is doing all that might be done to palliate these wrongs ; whether it be not a jarring discord in the civilisation we boast- a worse than pagan savageness in ...
Page xi
sir John Simon. of our labouring population , inquire into the actual rent paid for them - dog - holes as they are ; and studying the financial experience of Model Dormitories and Model Lodgings , let him reckon what that rent can ...
sir John Simon. of our labouring population , inquire into the actual rent paid for them - dog - holes as they are ; and studying the financial experience of Model Dormitories and Model Lodgings , let him reckon what that rent can ...
Page xv
... population . Almost invariably such houses are of the class technically known as ' tenement - houses , ' i . e . , houses divided into several tenements or holdings ; whereof each- though very often consisting but of a single small room ...
... population . Almost invariably such houses are of the class technically known as ' tenement - houses , ' i . e . , houses divided into several tenements or holdings ; whereof each- though very often consisting but of a single small room ...
Page xx
... population of the metropolis . † A chief artifice in the cheapening of bread is to increase its weight by various means which render it retentive of water . The other usual frauds consist in the employment of inferior flours- either not ...
... population of the metropolis . † A chief artifice in the cheapening of bread is to increase its weight by various means which render it retentive of water . The other usual frauds consist in the employment of inferior flours- either not ...
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