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The "Stuart" stove : (Colonel Stuart-Wortley's patent) : medal awarded at International Health Exhibition, London, 1884.

John Howard bringing water and fresh air into a prison in order to improve the conditions for the inmates. Watercolour.

Women, plumbers, and doctors, or, Household sanitation / by H.M. Plunkett.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: plans of the basement and ground floors, showing the heating arrangements. Lithograph by Day & son.

Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

In a sick room.

Burma: two figures reclining on a bed in a palace, while one servant swings a punkah and another pays homage. Watercolour.

Ventilation of soldiers' quarters. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.

British chimney sweeps : five centuries of chimney sweeping / Benita Cullingford.

Prevention of influenza : warning ; the person attacked by INFLUENZA who does not take precautions runs grave risks himself and may be a source of danger to others.

Infection : take notice : the public are hereby cautioned as to the best measures for combating infection and preventing the spread of the "catching" diseases, such as scarlet fever, small pox, measles, typhus, &c.

Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.

Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : preserving provisions, and ventilating buildings, cars, and vessels.

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British chimney sweeps : five centuries of chimney sweeping / Benita Cullingford.

Prevention of influenza : warning ; the person attacked by INFLUENZA who does not take precautions runs grave risks himself and may be a source of danger to others.

Infection : take notice : the public are hereby cautioned as to the best measures for combating infection and preventing the spread of the "catching" diseases, such as scarlet fever, small pox, measles, typhus, &c.

Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.

Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : preserving provisions, and ventilating buildings, cars, and vessels.