 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - 1842 - 556 pages
...attributed at first to deficiency or bad quality of food, or to any cause but the true one, — want of ventilation. A striking illustration of this was...all that is requisite for life and health, whereas it a spacious drawing-room be completely closed against the admission of air, an inhabitant confined... | |
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - 1842 - 554 pages
...attributed at first to deficiency or bad quality of food, or to any cause but the true one, — want of ventilation. A striking illustration of this was...on the subject of ventilation is frequently shown iu reports which assume that apartments containing given cubic feet of space are all that is requisite... | |
 | 1843 - 454 pages
...school for children during the years 1836 and 1837, as recorded in the second volume of the PoorLaw Reports. Such general failure of health, and such...children were by illness awakening extensive sympathy, 1 100 now enjoy excellent health. The defective state of information on the subject of ventilation,... | |
 | 1843 - 608 pages
...was found to be unusually good, but due ventilation wholly unprovided for. This was remedied and " in the same space where 700 children were by illness...extensive sympathy, 1100 now enjoy excellent health." One effect of diffusing information upon this subject will be to disabuse the public mind as to the... | |
 | 1843 - 612 pages
...diet was found to be unusually good, but due ventilation wholly unprovided for. This was remedied and "in the same space where 700 children were by illness...extensive sympathy, 1100 now enjoy excellent health." By examination of the registries it is found that at 53 per cent, of these operatives die of disease... | |
 | 1843 - 744 pages
...was found to be unusually good, but due ventilation wholly unprovided for. This was remedied and " in the same space where 700 children were by illness...extensive sympathy, 1100 now enjoy excellent health." One effect of diffusing information upon this subject will be to disabuse the public mind as to the... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pages
...children during the years 1836 and 1 837, as recorded in the second volume of the Poor LawReports. Such general failure of health and such mortality...illness, awakening extensive sympathy, 1100 now enjoy eicellent health. The defective state of information on the subject of ventilation is frequently shown... | |
 | Lundsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore S. Bell - 1845 - 564 pages
...good, but due ventilation wholly unprovided for. This was remedied, and in the same space where 900 children were by illness awakening extensive sympathy, 1100 now enjoy excellent health." The remarks relative to the temperature of the study of a clergyman apply with increased force to the church... | |
 | 1846 - 398 pages
...faulty nourishment ; and it was only after the more complete examination made by direction of the board, that the diet was found to be unusually good, but...were, by illness, awakening extensive sympathy, 1100 enjoy excellent health. '°Iu the space of four years, in a badly ventilated house, the Lying-in Hospital... | |
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Such general failure of health and such mortality had occurred among the children as to attract public notice and the animadversions of many medical men and others who visited the schools ; but by most the evil was attributed chiefly to faulty nourishment;... 