Weekly return of births and deaths (infectious diseases, weather) in London (and other great towns).

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Página 104 - When made in this way, Wassiliew's factor,, which consists of five decimals, may be reduced to the fraction .01, and i'f ten cc of urine be taken for the test, the percentage of albumin is obtained directly by noting the number of cc of sulphosalicylic acid required to produce the end reaction, and then moving the decimal point one place to the left. The end reaction is by no means an easy one to determine, especially if the quantity of the indicator, two gtts., recommended by Wassiliew, is employed....
Página 247 - ... huge embankment, to Barking Creek, on the Thames, 14 miles below London Bridge. With certain differences, the sewage of the south side of the Thames is amenable to the same kind of treatment. By some returns, furnished in June, 1870, by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, it appears that the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames at Crossness was 170,934 cubic metres, and at Barking 152,808 cubic metres — equivalent to about as many tons by weight.
Página 129 - Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. May May May May June June June June June July July July July Aug.
Página 172 - The numbers in the analytical table can be converted into grains per imperial gallon by multiplying them by 7, and then moving the decimal point one place to the left. The same operation transforms the hardness in the table into degrees of hardness on Clark's scale.
Página 438 - December, that taking unity to represent the average amount of organic impurity in a given volume of the Kent Company's water during the last nine years, the...
Página xxxiv - Of this quantity, 54,433 tons, or about three-fifths of the whole, was taken from the river, canals, and docks, and the remainder from the street pipes. During the year there have been...
Página xxxvi - Reports on the Analysis of the Waters supplied by the Metropolitan Water Companies during the year 1883, (i) by Professor Frankland, DCL, FRS, and (2) by Messrs.
Página 145 - ... from diarrhoea ; thus to the seven principal diseases of the zymotic class 215 deaths were referred, a lower number than in any week since the end of May last.
Página v - And along with this suggestive fact, it is to be considered that, " it is a well-established law that, other things being equal, the insalubrity of a place increases with the density of its population.
Página 354 - ... 1871. The population of Dublin is taken as stationary at the number enumerated in April, 1871.

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