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The universal directory for taking alive, or destroying, rats and mice : by a method hitherto unattempted and calculated as well for the use of ships and houses, as that of farmers and gardeners / by Thomas Swaine, of Greenwich, Kent, Ratcatcher to his Majesty's Royal Navy, Victualling-Offices, &c.
Swaine, Thomas.Date: 1783- Books
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The rates of insuring houses, and other buildings from fire, for 1,2,3,4, or 7 years, for a sum certain (without being liable to any contribution, or contingency whatsoever;) at the Fire Office, kept against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, and at the Rainbow Coffee-House ... in Fleet-Street ...
Phoenix Fire-Company of London.Date: 1709- Books
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Bye-laws for slaughter-houses, City of London / made by the Commissioners of Sewers, 23rd October, 1877 ; and confirmed by the Local Government Board, 29th November, 1877.
City of London (England). Commissioners of Sewers.Date: 1877- Books
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The insufficiency of the causes to which the increase of our poor, and of the poor's rates have been commonly ascribed; the True One Stated; with an enquiry into the mortality of country houses of industry, and a slight general view of Mr. Acland's plan for rendering the poor independent By the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex.
Howlett, John, 1731-1804.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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London Vaccine Institution: for inoculating and supplying matter free of expense. : Patronized by His Majesty's ministers, members of both houses of Parliament, the Hon. the East India Company, and the Corporation of the City of London. Eseablished [sic] in 1806, and supported by voluntary contributions.
London Vaccine Institution.Date: 1822- Books
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Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings. / By John Leigh, Jun., Esq.
Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.Date: 1835- Books
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Legal provisions for the poor. 1. of the several sorts of poor. 2, of rates and taxes for the relief of the poor. 3. Of binding poor children apprentices. 4. Where the poor shall be reliev'd by their relations. 5. Of work-houses, and houses of correction. 6. Of settlements, removals, and orders of the justices, both in and out of sessions. 7. Of the relief of bastard-children, and punishment of their reputed parents. 8. Of rogues, vagrants, and passing them to their respective habitations. 9. Of providing houses for poor people. 10. Of the general privy search. 11. Precedents of orders, warrants, &c. Wherein the statutes and resolutions of the judges on these subjects, are consider'd and explain'd. By S. C. of the Inner-Temple, Esq;
S. C. (Samuel Carter), of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.Date: 1718- Books
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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.
Eassie, William, 1832-1888.Date: 1872- Books
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A letter from a country gentleman, to a Member of Parliament, on the present state of public affairs: in which the object of the contending parties, and the following characters are particularly considered; The Dukes of Norfolk, Portland, and Northumberland; The houses of Devonshire, and Russel; the Lords Thurlow, Camden, Loughborough, Kenyon, and North; Mr. Pitt,-Mr. Fox,-Mr. Burke,-Mr. Sheridan; Mrs. Fitzherbert, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A sermon preached at St. Dunstan's in the West, on Sunday, March 28, 1790, for the benefit of the Royal Humane Society, by the Rev. Joseph Holden Pott, A. M. Prebendary of Lincoln, and Archdeacon of St. Albans. With an appendix, containing reflections on the importance of establishing general receiving-houses for the restoration of persons apparently dead.
Pott, Joseph Holden, 1758-1847.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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Report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, on the appointment of additional inspector of meat and slaughter-houses / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.
Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.Date: 1880- Books
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An essay in writing exemplified in the several hands and forms of business; useful for those design'd for compling houses, trade and the publick offices. By John Bland, writing master to the Academy in Little Tower Street, London. Bickham Sculpsit.
Bland, John, 1702-1750.Date: [1740]- Ephemera
Welcome to the London 2012 Paralympic Games : basketball player and the Houses of Parliament / issued by Royal Mail.
Date: 2012- Books
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A letter from a country gentleman, to a Member of Parliament, on the present state of public affairs: in which the object of the contending parties, and the following characters are particularly considered; The Dukes of Norfolk, Portland, and Northumberland; The houses of Devonshire, and Russel; The lords Thurlow, Camden, Loughborough, Kenyon, and North; Mr. Pitt,-Mr. Fox,-Mr. Burke,-Mr. Sheridan; Mrs. Fitzherbert, and his Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Suggestions for restoring the moral character and the industrious habits of the poor : also for establishing district work-farms in place of parish work-houses, and for reducing the poor-rates / by George Pinckard.
Pinckard, George, 1768-1835.Date: 1835- Books
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A report of the computation of tables, to be used with the hydrometer recently adopted for use in the United States custom-houses / made under the superintendence of A.D. Bache, by R.S. McCulloh.
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.Date: 1851- Books
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A complete history of all the religious houses in the counties of Devon and Cornwal, before the Dissolution: containing the abbies and priories of Tavistock, Torr, Ford, Newenham, Dunkeswell, Buckfast, Bockland, Frithelstoke, Hertland, Plimpton, Exeter Cathedral, Totnes, Barnstaple, Modbury, St. James's, Exeter, Stoke Curcy, Ottery St. Mary, Ottriton, &c. &c. Extracted From The most Authentic and Original Records now extant. By the Rev. William Jones, A. B.
Jones, William, Rev.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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London slaughter-houses and cow-sheds : a paper read before the Society of Medical Officers of Health, December 18th, 1875 : to which is added a report of the discussion thereon / by T. Orme Dudfield.
Dudfield, Thomas Orme.Date: 1876- Books
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By the Corporation of the London Assurance, establish'd by His Majesty's Royal charter. Proposals for assuring houses, and all other buildings; all goods, wares, and merchandizes, from loss and damage by fire, in all parts of the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon tweed, the kingdom of Ireland, and all other parts of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas.
London Assurance Corporation.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.XXII [1722]- Books
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Reports from Her Majesty's diplomatic and consular officers abroad on the regulations at the places where they reside respecting the ambulance transport of civilian sick : presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, August 1890.
Date: 1890- Books
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An essay on the means hitherto employed for lighting streets, and the interior of houses; and on those which may be substituted with advantage in their stead; Intended as an Attempt Towards the Improvement of this Branch of Domestic Economy, by Increasing the Effects of Light, and Diminishing It's Expence. With Explanatory Figures. By J. G. J. B. Count Thiville.
Thiville, J. G. J. B., Count.Date: 1800- Pictures
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A man with a carpetbag and an umbrella enters a lodging house and asks for a room, but the landlady rejects his request, thinking that his carpetbag identifies him with a man who had defrauded other lodging houses. Wood engraving after Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne).
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: 1841Reference: 29520i- Books
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Programme of proceedings to be observed at the ceremony of opening the new buildings by their royal highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, on Saturday, March 6th, 1897, at 3.30 p.m. / St. Marylebone Public Baths and Wash-houses.
St. Marylebone Public Baths and Wash-houses.Date: 1897- Books
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Report of the Sanitary Committee to the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London : together with a report of the Medical Officer of Health on the objections raised by the Butchers' Trade Society to the bye-laws proposed for the regulation of slaughter-houses.
City of London (England). Commissioners of Sewers. Sanitary Committee.Date: 1876- Books
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Practical œconomy, or, A proposal for enabling the poor to provide for themselves : with remarks on the establishment of soup houses : and an investigation of the real cause of the present extravagant consumption of fine wheaten bread by the people of this country / by a physician.
Date: 1801