Art. (6.) All persons certified by the examiner to be suffering from cholera shall be dealt with under any rules that may have been made by the nuisance authority under the 29th section of the Sanitary Act 1866 (see ante, page 359); or, where no such rules have been made, shall be removed, if their condition admits of it, to some hospital or place to be designated for such purpose by the nuisance authority, and no person so removed shall quit such hospital or place, until some physician or surgeon shall have certified that such person is free from the said disease. Art. (7.) In the event of any death from cholera taking place on board of such vessel, the body shall be taken out to sea and committed to the deep, properly loaded to prevent its rising. Art. (8.) The clothing and bedding of all persons who shall have died, or had an attack of cholera on board such vessel, shall be disinfected, or (if necessary) destroyed, under the direction of the nuisance authority. Art. (9.) The ship, and any articles therein, which may be infected with cholera, shall be disinfected by the nuisance authority. Art. (10.) Every person obstructing the nuisance authority in carrying this order into effect, or otherwise offending against this order, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. II. 1. Comparison of the metrical with the common English measures, as regards capacity and weight, from tables arranged by Mr. Warren de la Rue, F.R.S. 1 cub. in. 16.3861759 cub. centimetres. 1 cub. ft. 28 3153119 cub. decimetres. = 1 fluid oz. = = 28.4 c.c. 1 gallon 4.543457969 litres. = 1 quart = 1.136 litre. 2. For the convenience of medical officers of health, the following price-list of apparatus and reagents, mentioned in various parts of the work, has been supplied by Messrs. Griffin and Sons, manufacturers of chemical and philosophical apparatus, 22 Garrick Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. The various articles are priced separately, so that purchasers may select such of them as they may require. The numbers on the left hand margin refer to those given in Messrs. Griffin and Sons' very useful catalogue, known as Chemical Handicraft. The prices quoted are subject to an advance of 10 per cent : 429 2791/8 For the Examination of Air. 1 Set of Gramme Weights, 5, 2, 1, 1, to 1 Milli gramme 1 Balance for do. 1-1 Litre Measure graduated into c.c. 1535/46 4 Glass Jars to hold 5000 c. c. each 8 India-rubber Caps for ditto (double set) 2794/5 1 Tall narrow Glass, marked to measure 30 and 60 c.c.. 2688/9 1 Mohr's Burette 50 c. c. graduated into 1-10th 2694/h 1 Support for ditto (Mahogany). 4593 2798 c 115 1626/6 1 Bellows Pump with long nozzle (length sufficient 2 Mixing Jars 1 Pint 6 Glass Stirrers for ditto 4 oz. Turmeric Paper 1 Box of Filter Papers 1 Glass Funnel 4" £1 2 0 1 16 0 0 9 0 4 oz Pure Cryst. Oxalic Acid 1/. Bottle for ditto 4d. 0 1 lb. Calcium Hydrate (for making lime water) 9d. 1 0 1 1 1401 1 Common wet and dry bulb Thermometer Fahr. For the Qualitative Examination of Water. £0 9 0 2 Tall colourless glass Cylinders 2 ft. high 1′′ diam. 0 10 0 1 Wide mouth colourless glass Flask to hold about 1743 1323 2410 2011 2446 b 620 874 1 Nest Porcelain Evaporating Basins, 2, 4, 8, and 16 oz. 1 Porcelain Crucible 24" diam. 1 Set (6) Clark's Test Glasses Apparatus for making sulphuretted hydrogen 6 oz. Sol. Caustic Potash 2 6 Ammonium Oxalate Barium Nitrate For the Examination of Milk. 1 Lactometer graduated to test approximately the percentage of adulteration with water (in a case) £0 3 0 1 Tall narrow glass vessel graduated to test per centage of cream (in a case) 020 INDEX. A A B C process of sewage-purification, 258. Age, influence of, on marriage, 15. Ague, production of, 69, 169. Air, amount of, to be supplied in ventilation, 77. composition of, 51. effects of impure, 52. examination of, 111. impurities in, 52. movements of, in ventilation, 89. of hospitals, 60, 208. ,, sewers, 60. Air-bricks, 91. Air-flues, 107. Alcohol, effects of, 8. Alkali works, injurious gases given off by, 67. Aqueduct, construction of, 143. Archimedean-screw ventilator, 105. Arnott's ventilator, 102. Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings' Act, 352. Ashpits, 229. Atavism, 4. Australian preserved meat, 37. B BAKEHOUSE Regulation Act, 352. Barracks, ventilation of, 85. Basins, lavatory, 213. |