Preventive medicine in relation to the public health ... Being lectures and addresses delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital and elsewhere. Revised by the author / by Alfred Carpenter.

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1877
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    INDEX. A CTION of oospores on plant- life, 33 Aerial disinfection useless, 46 Age, average at death, 80; to be attained, 80 Aim of the medical profession, 4 Air and atmosphere, the, 55; amount requisite, 84; amount in water, 113 ; bacteria germs in impure, 75, 76; carbonic acid in, 60 ; capacity for moisture, 89 ; circulation of, 96 ; composition of, 59 ; Cun- ningham, Dr., experiments, 76; from sewers, 92; fresh, want of, ignored, 57; hori- zontal movement of, 81; impurities in, 59; a cause of disease, 72 ; injudicious ven- tilation, 59; of common , lodging-houses, 79 ; of public places, 79; knowledge of, requisite, 13 ; number of cubic feet to be provided, 88; sewer, a causation of epidemics and endemics, 97; Smith, Dr. Angus, work on, 58 ; tests for impurities in, 67, 75 ; trans- mission through walls, 86; velocity of, 82—91; vitiated, 59 ; vegetation, combined with, to defecate sewage, 207, 209 ; want of, a cause of work for medical officers, 65—72 Aldershot Sewage Farm, 295 Alumina salts a purifying me- dium, 150 Ammonia, albuminoid, and plant-life, 220; relation to sewage, 125 ; in water, 124 Analogy between potato disease and diphtheria, 34, 37, 38 Animal refuse, germs of disease 353 ; and disposal of, 13 Ansell, Mr., tables of child mortality, 22 Antheridia, development of, 32 Appearance of town and country inhabitants, 63 Artisans Dwellings Act, en- quiries under, 72 Axioms, Quetelet’s statistical, 17 Bacteria germs in impure air, 75, 76 Ball, Dr., system of ventilation. 84 Basis of knowledge, 332 Baths and lavatories in schools, 305 Baxter, Dr., studies of disin- fectants, 45, 50; conclusions from, 53 Beale, Dr., formulae of living matter, 214, 341 Beaconsfield, Earl of, on Sani- tary Prospects, 355 Bird, Mr. P. H., system ol ventilation, 86, 356