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... four days as chilly and with as keen and biting a wind as some of our March weather at home . Within four or five days there was a fall from something close upon 100 ° F. to about 50 ° F. Such changes are however rare in Egypt . That I ...
... four days as chilly and with as keen and biting a wind as some of our March weather at home . Within four or five days there was a fall from something close upon 100 ° F. to about 50 ° F. Such changes are however rare in Egypt . That I ...
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... four inches diameter , and the results will doubt less throw a great light upon the action of gases in upright soil - pipes and horizontal drain - pipes . The Duke of Devonshire has obtained the Gold Medal from the Royal Agricultural ...
... four inches diameter , and the results will doubt less throw a great light upon the action of gases in upright soil - pipes and horizontal drain - pipes . The Duke of Devonshire has obtained the Gold Medal from the Royal Agricultural ...
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... four hours of his personal time , on the assumption that all had been previously prepared for his inspection , the concealed parts of the pipes , etc. , having been exposed to view . Mr. Eassie says that when there is no drain plan of ...
... four hours of his personal time , on the assumption that all had been previously prepared for his inspection , the concealed parts of the pipes , etc. , having been exposed to view . Mr. Eassie says that when there is no drain plan of ...
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... four inches diameter where these can perform the work , where they will not a six - inch can be used , and rarely a nine- inch . Mr. Griffith uses cast iron pipes in the house . The fall for a house drain should not be less than one in ...
... four inches diameter where these can perform the work , where they will not a six - inch can be used , and rarely a nine- inch . Mr. Griffith uses cast iron pipes in the house . The fall for a house drain should not be less than one in ...
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... four of them have died . The symptoms observed during this illness were great abdomi- nal pains , vomiting , purging , and most profuse perspiration , it being stated in one case that the perspiration rolled from the sufferer literally ...
... four of them have died . The symptoms observed during this illness were great abdomi- nal pains , vomiting , purging , and most profuse perspiration , it being stated in one case that the perspiration rolled from the sufferer literally ...
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Page 364 - 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 364 - 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 190 - Health and Comfort in House Building, or Ventilation with Warm Air by Self-Acting Suction Power, with Review of the mode of Calculating the Draught in Hot-Air Flues, and with some actual Experiments. By J. DRYSDALE, MD, and JW HAYWARD, MD Second edition, with Supplement, with plates, demy 8vo, cloth, 'js.
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 364 - 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 - Infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered, was equal to 144 per 1,000, which was 2 below the average rate in the ten preceding corresponding quarters.
Page 255 - 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 363 - ... 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 114 - We disapprove the present custom of burying the dead, and desire to substitute some mode which shall rapidly resolve the body into its component elements by a process which cannot offend the living, and shall render the remains absolutely innocuous. Until some better method is devised, we desire to adopt that usually known as cremation.