| 1836 - 322 páginas
...the excrementitious matter from nearly a million and a half of human beings ; the washings of their foul linen ; the filth and refuse of many hundred manufactories ; the offal arid decomposing vegetable substances from the markets ; the foul and gory liquid from slaughter-houses,... | |
| Alphonse Normandy - 1850 - 678 páginas
...metropolis discharges its pestilential tribute to the noble river through 130 sewers, to the amount j,£ 30,000,000 gallons daily, or 130,000 tons. Among a...inhabitants of London are doomed to drink, to use for all all domestic purposes every day of their lives, unless, indeed, they abjure the impure element altogether,... | |
| Alphonse Normandy - 1850 - 688 páginas
...ablutions must contribute largely to the causes of contamination ; add to this the excrementitioua matters, the washings of foul linen, the filth and...inhabitants of London are doomed to drink, to use for all all domestic purposes every day of their lives, unless, indeed, they abjure the impure element altogether,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 páginas
...ablutions most contribute largely to the causes of contamination ; add to this the excremestitious matters, ' the washings of foul linen, the filth and...abominations from hospitals and dissecting-rooms,' and an ides may be formed of the quality of the fluid which no inconsiderable portion of the inhabitants of... | |
| Alphonse Normandy - 1850 - 680 páginas
...matters, the washings of foul linen, the filth and refuse of many hundred manufactories, the ofial and decomposing vegetable substances from the markets,...and dissecting-rooms,' and an idea may be formed of tie quality of the fluid which no inconsiderable portion of the inhabitants of London are doomed to... | |
| Edward Bascome - 1851 - 268 páginas
...the excrementitious matter from nearly a million and a half of human beings;— the washings of their foul linen, — the filth and refuse of many hundred...purulent abominations from hospitals and dissectingrooms, too disgusting to detail." The polluted state of the water supplied to this vast metropolis is not,... | |
| Edward Bascome - 1851 - 270 páginas
...nearly a million and a half of human beings ; — the washings of their foul linen, — the filth arid refuse of many hundred manufactories, — the offal...purulent abominations from hospitals and dissectingrooms, too disgusting to detail." The polluted state of the water supplied to this vast metropolis is not,... | |
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