The Health of the CityHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 372 sider |
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Side 69 - That it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture within any territory or the District of Columbia any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this Act...
Side 69 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Side 69 - That the introduction into any state or territory or the District of Columbia from any other state or territory or the District of Columbia, or from any foreign country, or shipment to any foreign country of any article of food or drugs which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this act, is hereby prohibited...
Side 224 - For the first time in the history of man, the sewage of nearly three millions of people had been brought to seethe and ferment under a burning sun, in one vast open cloaca lying in their midst.
Side 224 - Parliamentary committee-rooms was only rendered barely tolerable by the suspension before every window of blinds saturated with chloride of lime, and by the lavish use of this and other disinfectants.
Side 151 - The trickling bed appears to be the ideal methi for solving the essential problem of sewage disposal, the oxidation of organic matter. It exhibits the simplicity of all scientific applications, which are merely intelligent intensifications of natural processes. A pile of stones on which bacterial growth may gather and a regulated supply of sewage are the only desiderata. We meet the conditions resulting from an abnormal aggregation of human life in the city by setting up a second city of microbes....
Side 38 - ... DOLE. But some do not get out of bed in the morning. Whether they are rich or poor makes no difference. How are we going to take care of this problem ? Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, the children are up. I know mine certainly are. I haven't experienced this problem. These mothers are very concerned, and they are trying to do the best they can with what they have got. In this case, I would go to the neighbor next door, and say, "Can we start with you?
Side 300 - Enter Hesbaye or Flanders from whatever side one may, the country is everywhere thickly strewn with white, red-roofed houses, some of them standing alone, others lying close together in populous villages. If, however, one spends a day in one of the villages — I mean one of those in which there is no local industry — - one hardly sees a grown-up workman in the place, and almost comes to the conclusion that the population consists entirely of old people and children.
Side 241 - Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed as forbidding the use of steam whistles as alarm signals in case of fire or collision, or other imminent danger, nor for the necessary signals by the steam engines of the fire department of the city.
Side 89 - The walls and ceiling of such rooms shall be plastered or wainscoted, and, if required by the board of health, shall be whitewashed at least once in three months. The furniture and utensils therein shall be so arranged that they and the floor may at all times be kept clean and in good sanitary condition.