Personal and household arrangements in relation to health : including hints with respect to the use of gas, gas-stoves, and of modern wall-papers / by John Angell.

  • Angell, John.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Personal and household arrangements in relation to health : including hints with respect to the use of gas, gas-stoves, and of modern wall-papers / by John Angell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NtWcJ AGENCY, 81 RENFIELD STm ^ GLASGQVJt PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD ARRANGEMENTS IN RELATION TO HEALTH, INCLUDING HINTS WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF GAS, GAS-STOVES, AND OF MODERN WALL-PAPERS. By JOHN ANGEL L, F.I.C., F.C.S., Senior Science Master, Manchester Grammar School. MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN,—I am here this evening to deUver a lecture on Personal and Household Arrangements in Relation to Health, including Hints with Respect to the Use of Gas, Gas-Stoves, and of Modern Wall-papers, which, to render as clear and as practical as possible, it will be my duty to illustrate with the aid of experiments and diagrams. The lecture is delivered in pursuance of a plan adopted with manifest success some time since by the Sanitary Association of Manchester and Salford, by which it hopes to cause each person who attends a lecture, or who reads it after its publication, to become a partner with it in its attempt to promote the health and well-being of the people of this district. On looking over the lectures already delivered and published on behalf of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Associa- tion, by Doctors Noble, Ransome, Sinclair, R. Angus Smith, Haddon, Vernon, and Mr. Estcourt, your public analyst, I feel it but right to state that I know of no more able, explicit, and valuable series of lectures on public health than the series to which I am now referring. And I also desire to state that from the necessity of, as it were, keeping the ball a-roUing—that is, of continually quickening up the interest and the knowledge of the public, especially of the less informed and less favoured portion of