This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...is that every house ought to have attached to it a plan of the drains as a matter of right and law. PLATE L. Terrace of the Future on the Refuse of the Past. This plate needs but few words. Until recently, no check has been put upon the haste of speculating builders, who have built thousands of houses on unhealthy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...is that every house ought to have attached to it a plan of the drains as a matter of right and law. PLATE L. Terrace of the Future on the Refuse of the Past. This plate needs but few words. Until recently, no check has been put upon the haste of speculating builders, who have built thousands of houses on unhealthy rubbish heaps, long before the animal and vegetable refuse has had time to ferment, decompose, and cease to be poisonous. Within the last year, a plot of land, which served as the depot for the road scrapings of the Corporation of Leeds, has been covered with houses and shops. Such proceedings will surely be impossible in the future, thanks to the New Building Bye-Laws of our town. ( 41, Vide Appendix. PLATE LI. Arsenical Wall Papers. This danger cannot well be expressed in a drawing. In order, however, to keep to the fundamental principle of the book, viz., to appeal to the eye in order to enforce every lesson, this plate is given as expressing the fact of arsenical paper being stripped off a wall. Much has been written in medical and lay journals of the injury to health inflicted by arsenic in wall papers. During the last two years I have traced ailments to this cause in several instances, and I keep, as trophies, pieces of the detected and condemned papers. About five years ago, my own children were unwell from sleeping in a newly-papered bedroom. The paper bad a brilliant green pattern, and was guaranteed "free from arsenic." The illness of one child after another led me to have the paper examined by my friend, Mr. Scattergood, and he reported the paper full of arsenic in a loose nncl dangerous form. The paper-hanger was disnia ed, replaced the paper, and, I believe, no longer takes "warranted" papers on trust. The fo...
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Small Octavo, book is bound in green cloth covers and gilt lettering to spine. The front board features a black border around the edges, gilt lettering and motif in the centre. The spine is frayed and and worn. Book is shaken but binding is tight. The binding is torn, a few pages are loose but present. Internally clean, pages are browning with age. Some plates have been drawn on with pen. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
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