Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, London, August, 10th-17th, 1891 v. 11-12, 第 11-12 卷

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Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1892
 

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第 220 頁 - Branch of the National Association for Supplying Medical Aid to the Women of India...
第 33 頁 - do not pray to escape the affection, unless in seasons when it occurs " with more than ordinary violence. They do, however, petition for a " mild visitation. But even the loss of an eye does not appear to be " viewed as a very serious calamity ! - Is there not another eye " - sufficient for all purposes - ? questioned a philosopher. - If it were " - the leg or hand, it would be different, but an eye is immaterial.
第 147 頁 - Under the provisions of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, the Corporation acquired, at great cost, a considerable area of land in the heart of the town. The sanitary defects of this area being such as to be irremediable except by some improvement scheme which would lead to the demolition of most of the houses, with a view to a re-arrangement of dwellings and a reconstruction of streets, the Council took all necessary steps to that end. The entire extent of the "condemned...
第 105 頁 - In one cellar in Lace-street I was told that the filthy water thus collected measured not less than two feet in depth ; and in another cellar, a well, four feet deep, into which this stinking fluid was allowed to drain, was discovered below the bed where the family slept !" He also states, — " There are upwards of 8,000 inhabited cellars in Liverpool, and I estimate their occupants at from 35,000 to 40,000.
第 255 頁 - Therefore it is proved that from 0 to 5000 feet above the sea there is no immunity from fever and ague, that over forty miles of lake water between a camp and the other shore are no positive protection ; that a thousand miles of river course may serve as a flue to convey malaria in a concentrated form ; that if there is a thick screen of primeval forest, or a grove of plantains between the dwelling-place...
第 20 頁 - The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, the Infectious Disease (Prevention) -Act, 1890, and Part III.
第 104 頁 - Gosson, were genuinely alarmed at the spirit of irresponsible novelty around them, and were bent on reaffirming that what was good enough for their fathers was good enough for them.
第 73 頁 - Whereas various portions of the city of Glasgow are so built, and the buildings thereon are so densely inhabited, as to be highly injurious to the moral and physical welfare of the inhabitants, and many of the thoroughfares are narrow, circuitous, and inconvenient, and it would be of public and local advantage if various houses and buildings were taken down, and those portions of the said city reconstituted...
第 225 頁 - Report to the Local Government Board on the " proposed changes in hours and ages of employment in textile " factories," urged that : — " From a physical point of view, I am of opinion that — " A child under the age of 10 years should not be allowed to work in a factory or workshop. "From the age of 10 to that of 14 they might be allowed to work half-time at occupations which do not require much physical strength, or a constrained position of either standing, walking, or sitting.
第 224 頁 - ... and 10 and 12 days and nights at a stretch, with a rest of half an hour in the evening ; and, as a rule, from 4 and 5 am to 7, 8, and 9 pm, without any stoppage during the day. If six or eight hours a day is as long as a man should be employed in these works, it is surely abominable cruelty to allow lads, girls, women, and children to be employed in them day after day for 23J hours at a stretch.

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