London as it is: Being a Series of Observations on the Health, Habits, and Amusements of the PeopleJ. Macrone, 1837 - 389 strán (strany) |
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Strana 54 - When any one dies, then either by tolling, or by ringing of a Bell, or by bespeaking of a Grave of the Sexton, the same is known to the Searchers, corresponding with the said Sex-ton. "The Searchers hereupon (who are ancient Matrons, sworn to their Office) repair to the place, where the dead Corps lies, and by view of the same and by other enquiries, they examine by what Disease or Casualty the Corps died.
Strana 236 - England; yet in large towns, and more especially in the metropolis, it has become more difficult to find room for the dead than for the living. The Commissioners for the Improvements in Westminster reported to Parliament in 1814, that St. Margaret's churchyard could not, consistently with the health of the neighbourhood, be used much longer as a burying ground, ' for that it was with the greatest difficulty a vacant place could...
Strana 257 - ... and experience ; we are of opinion, that the present state of the supply of water to the metropolis is susceptible of, and requires, improvement ; that many of the complaints respecting the quality of the water are well founded ; and that it ought to be derived from other sources than those now resorted to, and guarded by such restrictions as shall at all times ensure its cleanliness and purity.
Strana 296 - The 76 deaths which have occurred in the year have been, with the exception of those who have died from advanced age, principally caused by the disease of the brain, of the lungs, and the complaints brought on by those deadly potions of ardent spirits in which the lower classes seem more than ever to indulge. In a very great number of the recent cases, both amongst the men and women, the insanity is caused entirely by spirit drinking.
Strana 332 - ... at that time. Instead of allowing the body, with its multifarious powers,, to be refreshed by ' Nature's best restorer, balmy sleep,' and the mind to be relieved from care and thought, irritation, and excitement, the stomach is loaded with (probably) a heterogeneous mass of food, and the whole machinery of the inward man is forced into sluggish operation when the vital powers are at the lowest ebb ; the brain, feverish and disturbed, sends forth startling visions and horrifying dreams until morning...
Strana 241 - CEMETERY, a place set apart for the burial of the dead. Anciently, none were buried in churches or churchyards: it was even unlawful to inter in cities, and the cemeteries were without the walls.
Strana 236 - There are many churchyards in which the soil has been raised several feet above the level of the adjoining street, by the continual accumulation of mortal matter; and there are others, in which the ground is actually probed with a borer before a grave is opened! In these things the most barbarous savages might reasonably be shocked at our barbarity. Many tons of human bones every year are sent from London to the north,* where they are crushed in mills contrived for the purpose, and used as manure.
Strana 54 - I could not depend on the sufficiency of them, rather relying upon those accompts which have been kept since in order as to all the uses I shall make of them. 2. I believe that the rise of keeping these accompts was taken from the Plague ; for the said bills {for ought appears) first began in the said year 1592, being a time of great mort., and after some dis-use were resumed again in the year 1603. after the great plague then happening likewise.
Strana 189 - if a person require half a gallon of pure air per minute, how many gallons of this foul atmosphere must be, as it were, filtered by his lungs in the course of a day...
Strana 118 - Yet medical men, the guardians of public health, never have their attention called to the prevention of sickness; it forms no part of their education. To promote health is apparently contrary to their interests : the public do not seek the shield of medical art against disease, nor call the surgeon, till the arrows of death already rankle in the veins.