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accident or negligence Ages ALL AGES annual rate average number Averages of Tempe Bethnal Green Births and Deaths Borough CAUSES OF DEATH Chelsea Chelsea North-west Cholera Clerkenwell corrected for increase DEATHS in LONDON DEATHS NOT CLASSED Deaths of Persons DEATHS registered diarrhoea Diphtheria EAST DISTRICTS East London End Old Town Glaisher Greenwich Hackney Haggerstone Highest Lowest Hoxton Hoxton New Town infantile fever Islington West July July July June June June Lambeth Church LARGE TOWNS London City Manchester Mar Mar Mar Marylebone Mean Temp Mean Temperature Measles Meteorological Observations Mile End Mile End Old NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE Newington ORDER partially cloudy rain fell rate of mortality rature Registered LAST WEEK Registrar Royal Observatory Scarlatina self-regis Sheffield Shoreditch Small-pox SOUTH DISTRICTS South London Sthwark sub-dist Thames Thermo THIRTEEN other LARGE Total births Typhus VIOLENT DEATHS Waterloo-road Week ending Saturday Whitechapel whooping-cough Woolwich Dockyard Workhouse Zymotic Diseases
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Página xxi - I should say that we could certainly not trust to the oxidising power to take away the noxious quality of the water before it reaches, say, Teddington. I presume that the sewage could only come in contact with oxygen from the oxygen contained in the water, and also from the oxygen on the surface of the water ; and we are aware that ordinary oxygen does not exercise any rapidly-oxidising power on organic matter.
Página 212 - At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in t.'ie week was 29'869iu.
Página xxi - I believe that an infinitesimally small quantity of decaying matter is able to produce an injurious effect upon health. Therefore, if a large proportion of organic matter was removed by the process of oxidation, the quantity left might be quite sufficient to be injurious to health. With regard to the oxidation, we know that to destroy organic matter the most powerful oxidizing agents are required ; we must boil it with nitric acid and chloric acid and the most perfect chemical agents. To think to...
Página xx - I should say, that it is simply impossible' that the oxidizing power acting on sewage, running in mixture with water over a distance of any length, is sufficient to remove its noxious quality.
Página 418 - to prepare a Nomenclature suitable to England and to all countries where the English language is in common use . . . ." and " to lay the foundations for a Nomenclature of Diseases in any language extant on earth.
Página 2 - ... 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. That quantity,...
Página 287 - Ibs. of average London sewage. By gradual oxidation, partly in the pores of the soil, partly in the Thames and its tributaries, and partly in the reservoirs, filters, and conduits of the Chelsea Water Company, this sewage contamination had been entirely converted into comparatively innocuous inorganic compounds before its delivery to consumers.
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Página xxi - presume that the sewage could only come in contact with oxygen from the " oxygen contained in the water, and also from the oxygen on the surface of the " water, and we are aware that ordinary oxygen does not exercise any rapidly " oxidizing power on organic matter. I believe that an infinitesimally small " quantity of decaying matter is able to produce an injurious effect upon health. " Therefore, if a large proportion of organic matter was removed by the process " of oxidation, the quantity left...
Página 98 - infantile fever " are classed with those of typhoid, relapsing, and other continued fevers, under one name " typhus." Cases of " rheumatic fever " are classed with " rheumatism ; " of " hemorrhage," and " abscess," with the diseases of the organs affected. Cases of "neglect" and "cold," except when the result of privation, (Class I.