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... live in the city itself ยท insist upon having water - closets in their own houses . Birmingham has an admirable system of sewers , having water- closets connected with about two - thirds of the houses . At the present time they depend ...
... live in the city itself ยท insist upon having water - closets in their own houses . Birmingham has an admirable system of sewers , having water- closets connected with about two - thirds of the houses . At the present time they depend ...
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... live . Three inspectors are kept constantly employed looking after house - drains , and compelling house - owners to repair breaks and imperfections . Dublin has , in the main , good sewers , but their discharge into the river Liffey is ...
... live . Three inspectors are kept constantly employed looking after house - drains , and compelling house - owners to repair breaks and imperfections . Dublin has , in the main , good sewers , but their discharge into the river Liffey is ...
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... sewerage . Immense as the outlay for any substantial change must be , that outlay is as nothing in comparison to the cost in lives and in the resources of 3 APPENDIX . 33 Philadelphia is poorly provided with sewers, a large part ...
... sewerage . Immense as the outlay for any substantial change must be , that outlay is as nothing in comparison to the cost in lives and in the resources of 3 APPENDIX . 33 Philadelphia is poorly provided with sewers, a large part ...
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Boston (Mass.). City Council. to the cost in lives and in the resources of the community , which a continuance of the present evil entails . " In the presence of an hourly poisoning such as the air undergoes , the death - rate cannot ...
Boston (Mass.). City Council. to the cost in lives and in the resources of the community , which a continuance of the present evil entails . " In the presence of an hourly poisoning such as the air undergoes , the death - rate cannot ...
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... lives of the occupants saved . At each of two large fires where the steamer was on duty , she was credited with saving property of more value than her own cost ; and there is hardly a day when she does not render some important service ...
... lives of the occupants saved . At each of two large fires where the steamer was on duty , she was credited with saving property of more value than her own cost ; and there is hardly a day when she does not render some important service ...
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