Hygiene and public healthP. Blakiston, 1889 - 471 pages |
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... suspended matters . Examination of air for bacteria , fungi , and moulds CHAPTER IV . PAGE 227 240 240 246 • 247 250 251 • 252 252 WARMING AND LIGHTING . Warming 254 Radiation 254 Open fire - places 255 Open gas - fires 257 Ventilating ...
... suspended matters . Examination of air for bacteria , fungi , and moulds CHAPTER IV . PAGE 227 240 240 246 • 247 250 251 • 252 252 WARMING AND LIGHTING . Warming 254 Radiation 254 Open fire - places 255 Open gas - fires 257 Ventilating ...
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... suspended . It becomes highly aerated , absorbs ammoniacal salts , nitric and nitrous acids to a small amount , and in the neighbourhood of the sea chloride of sodium . The rain falling in towns is found to have absorbed sulphurous acid ...
... suspended . It becomes highly aerated , absorbs ammoniacal salts , nitric and nitrous acids to a small amount , and in the neighbourhood of the sea chloride of sodium . The rain falling in towns is found to have absorbed sulphurous acid ...
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... suspended matters of the sewage will be largely deposited . The result of all these processes is that , under certain conditions and within certain limits , streams and rivers which have been polluted are capable of undergoing a certain ...
... suspended matters of the sewage will be largely deposited . The result of all these processes is that , under certain conditions and within certain limits , streams and rivers which have been polluted are capable of undergoing a certain ...
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... therefore very turbid , and to allow time for the clarification of the water by the deposition of all its suspended matters . The five companies supply- ing Thames water to London have storage reservoirs of an WATER . 15.
... therefore very turbid , and to allow time for the clarification of the water by the deposition of all its suspended matters . The five companies supply- ing Thames water to London have storage reservoirs of an WATER . 15.
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... suspended matters , but without losing its dangerous properties . The shallow well into which the filth percolates is found to furnish a water loaded with ammonia and chlorides - evidences of sewage ( urine ) contamination - with ...
... suspended matters , but without losing its dangerous properties . The shallow well into which the filth percolates is found to furnish a water loaded with ammonia and chlorides - evidences of sewage ( urine ) contamination - with ...
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