Preventive medicine to the public health / by Alfred Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, Alfred.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Preventive medicine to the public health / by Alfred Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Unwholesome houses at Wad- don, 200 Urine, value of, 182 Utilisation of sewage and pre- ventive measures, 335 VALUE of sewage, finan- cially, 181 Vegetation, action of, in setting up disease, 345; capacity to digest sewage, 193, 195, 210, 212, 214, 220; Liebig's view, 194 ; most active when putre- factive changes occur, 273 ; power of, when combined with air and soil, 207, 210; power of destroying disease germs, 217 Velocity of air, 82, 91 Ventilation, additional require- ments for gas, 86; appliances for, 84; and formation of ozone, 103 ; Bird's system, 86; by chimneys and win- dows, 85 ; consists of motion, 96; expansion by heat, 83 ; of sewers, 93, 98, 99, 170, J79> 334 5 Parkes's formulae, 83 ; principles of, 90; spon- taneous through walls, 87 Vested interests, 33 Vibrios, action of altered, 352 Vital statistics, 14 ; average age at death, 80; of Bed- dington, 244; death-rate in poor tenements, 73 ; deaths from phthisis, 71 ; deaths at various ages, 19 ; deaths, rela- tive, of males and females, 20 ; of European kingdoms, 18 ; Elizabethan and Vic- torian eras compared, 74 ; English and foreign, 21; of the principal towns in the kingdom, 18 ; rules for guidance, 15; the basis of sanitary science, 323, 326 WADDON HAMLET, un- healthy state of, 199; Moser's closets introduced at, 200; receipts and expenses of, 205; slop-water at, 205 ; treatment of sewage at, 198 ; cesspool system at, 233 ; vital statistics of, 230, 245 ; water supply, 233 Walls, absorbent and non- absorbent, 87; transmission of air through, 86 Wandle, river, and hamlets, 199; valley, a source of water supply, 152 Waste of sewage, 296 Water, ammonia in, 125; am- monia, process of analysis, 117, 124, 125 ; analysis of effluent and Thames water, 235; amount of solids in various, in ; amount con- tained in air, 89 ; animalculae the natural scavengers of, 109; atmosphere of, 149 ; capacity for absorbing air, 113 ; chlorine an indication of impurity, 118; condition at Woolwich, 113 ; constant supply, 135 ; constituents of good, 126 ; determination of organic impurities, 109 ; errors of calculations, 124; evidence of sewage con- tamination, 118 ; gaseous matters in, 112; hard water, wholesomeness of, 114; hard and soft, no; hardness, method of estimating, 116; injurious springs, 128 ; limit of solids in drinking water, 117; metallic tests for, 110; microscopic examination of, 106, 145 ; natural powers of purification, 123 ; needless suspicions of, 122; nitrates and nitrites in, 120; perma- nent hardness, 117; proposed sources of supply for London, 1