Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, Volumes 40-41

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Page 180 - Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland...
Page 43 - WHO loves not Knowledge ? Who shall rail Against her beauty ? May she mix With men and prosper ! Who shall fix Her pillars ? Let her work prevail.
Page 29 - ... will much more than double its power. Nor can it be doubted that, cleared as the subject- now is of its mysteries and chief difficulties, the attention of our engineers will be strongly drawn to the subject, and the inventive energies of this mechanical age speedily bring the machine to perfection. One of the most remarkable as it is one of the most cheering considerations connected with this subject is the fact, that those improvements in locomotion are ever first committed by Providence to...
Page 257 - These, SIR, were the methods, under the care of Providence, by which the Resolution performed a voyage of three years and eighteen days, through all the climates from 52° North to 71° South, with the loss of one man only by disease, and who died of a complicated and lingering illness, without any mixture of scurvy.
Page 70 - One cannot see a Chinese village and its inevitable pullulating horde of children without realising the vital problem of the East, a problem so immediate and tremendous that it dominates the mind like an evil dream. . . . The picture is the same from one end of the country to the other; cities and villages innumerable taking their toll of the land; hamlets huddling ever closer in the valleys, where every field already supports more lives than would be possible in any other country except India...
Page 180 - Fifth by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India...
Page 181 - Newcastle's supplication, thought fit to give them licence to dig coals and stones in the common soil of that town, without the walls thereof...
Page 70 - Chinese village and its inevitable pullulating horde of children without realising the vital problem of the East, a problem so immediate and tremendous that it dominates the mind like an evil dream. . . . The picture is the same from one end of the country to the other ; cities and villages innumerable taking their toll of the land ; hamlets huddling ever closer in the valleys, where every field already supports more lives than would be possible in any other country except India ; a third of humanity...
Page 231 - Fathers beat their own children to save them from a worse beating by the overseers. In the afternoon the strain grew so severe that the heavy iron stick known as the billyroller was in constant use, and, even then, it happened not infrequently that a small child, as he dozed, tumbled into the machine beside him to be mangled for life, or, if he were more fortunate, to find a longer Lethe than his stolen sleep.
Page 243 - Arrangements for preparing or heating, and taking, meals ; the supply of drinking water ; the supply of protective clothing ; ambulance and first-aid arrangements ; the supply and use of seats in workrooms ; facilities for washing ; accommodation for clothing ; arrangements for supervision of workers.

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