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... means an easy question to answer for those who have no personal acquaintance with the various localities recommended as winter resi- dences for invalids . And it is unhappily by no means an uncommon thing to hear complaints from ...
... means an easy question to answer for those who have no personal acquaintance with the various localities recommended as winter resi- dences for invalids . And it is unhappily by no means an uncommon thing to hear complaints from ...
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... means , in clothing up to your means , and in food below your means ' . Should it not be the aim of sanitary administration to secure for each habitable room , and especially in the overcrowded cottages of the poorer classes , some ...
... means , in clothing up to your means , and in food below your means ' . Should it not be the aim of sanitary administration to secure for each habitable room , and especially in the overcrowded cottages of the poorer classes , some ...
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... means for periodical flushing by means of the town's hose , and should accordingly inflict a fine on any owner or occupier of property where this state of neglect is permitted to endanger the health of neighbours . The objectionable ...
... means for periodical flushing by means of the town's hose , and should accordingly inflict a fine on any owner or occupier of property where this state of neglect is permitted to endanger the health of neighbours . The objectionable ...
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... means of re- moving as much as possible the disagreeables of household operations into a separate apartment . When there are more than two rooms , and some- times when there are only two , a love of neatness and order will often show ...
... means of re- moving as much as possible the disagreeables of household operations into a separate apartment . When there are more than two rooms , and some- times when there are only two , a love of neatness and order will often show ...
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... means watertight , but allow the sewage to perco- late the ground in the vicinity , thus causing a reser- voir of foul air under the house , which is drawn up through the floor by the heated air of the dwellings . In addition to this it ...
... means watertight , but allow the sewage to perco- late the ground in the vicinity , thus causing a reser- voir of foul air under the house , which is drawn up through the floor by the heated air of the dwellings . In addition to this it ...
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Page 361 - In the case of food or drink. 1. If any substance or substances has or have been mixed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 2. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for the article. 3. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.
Page 361 - Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia or other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work. (3) If its strength, quality, or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is sold.
Page 221 - Any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill factory dyehouse brewery bakehouse or gaswork, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever; and Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private d'welling-house) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance...
Page 361 - food," as used herein, shall include all articles used for food or drink by man, whether simple, mixed, or compound. SEC. 3. Any article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this Act...
Page 325 - The rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered...
Page 323 - ... will not admit of his removal without danger to his health, in which case the house or place where he remains shall be considered as a hospital, and all persons residing in or in any way concerned within the same shall be subject to the regulations of the board as before provided.
Page 361 - ... appointed under this act, who shall apply to him for that purpose, and on his tendering the value of the same, with a sample sufficient for the purpose of analysis of any article which is included in this act, and...
Page 34 - ... bulb. The thermometer for ascertaining the temperature of the oil is fitted with collar and ivory scale in a similar manner to the one described. It has a round bulb, a space at the top, and ranges from about 55° F. to 150° F. ; it measures from end of ivory back to bulb 2J-.
Page 110 - In the case of a certificate regarding milk, butter, or any article liable to decomposition, the analyst shall specially report whether any change had taken place in the constitution of the article that would interfere with the analysis.
Page 33 - In the Petroleum Act, 1871, the term " petroleum to which this Act applies " shall mean such of the petroleum defined by section three of that Act as, when tested in manner set forth in Schedule One to this Act, gives off an inflammable vapour at a temperature of less than seventy-three degrees of Fahrenheit-s thermometer.