Public health / by E.A. Parkes ; revised by William Aitken ; to which is added a short paper containing hints to the medical officers of the Arctic expedition under Captain Nares, as to experiments on diet and body-temperature in the polar regions.

  • Parkes, Edmund A. (Edmund Alexander), 1819-1876.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Public health / by E.A. Parkes ; revised by William Aitken ; to which is added a short paper containing hints to the medical officers of the Arctic expedition under Captain Nares, as to experiments on diet and body-temperature in the polar regions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Diet in Arctic regions ........ 69 Dirty house water 24 Diseases causing death under five years of age . . . .64 Prevention Act ........ 44 ,, prevention of ........ 40 ,, preventible 40 Disinfection of clothing ........ 43 Disposal of dead ......... 45 Dry refuse of houses ........ 24 Epidemics, powers during ....... 44 Expectation of life statistics ....... 65 Excreta, removal of . . . . , . . . 25 Factory Acts , . .38 Fat and starch in Arctic regions 72 Food Acts 33 „ „ aim of 37 adulterations ........ .36 supply, regulation of . . ... • . • 32 Filters 21 Flour inspection 36 Forests 6 Gas products, removal of ....... 38 General Improvement and Police Act 54 Habitations, condition of 9 Health of a town expressed by death rate . . . .61 House air impure from drains . . . . . '57 cisterns ......... 22 regulations 52 . to house visitation ....... 44 uncleanliness ........ 59 warming insufficient . . . . . . '55 water . . . . . . . . . .24 Houses, air impurity 55 ,, arrangement and building of . . . . .15 ,, coldness of air in 55 construction of .18 dampness of 54