Hygiene and diseases of IndiaHigginbotham, 1913 - 1003 pages |
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Page 48 - Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine, which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both...
Page 48 - Whoever voluntarily corrupts or fouls the water of any public spring or reservoir, so as to render it less fit for the purpose for which it is ordinarily used, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
Page 190 - Rowland for the better management of dairies, to secure a pure milk-supply : 1. That all milking be carried on in the open air, the animals and operators standing on a material which is capable of being thoroughly washed, such as a floor of concrete or cement. Such a floor could be easily laid down in any convenient place which can be found. The site chosen should be removed from inhabited parts as far as possible, and should be provided with a plentiful watersupply. Only in this way does it seem...
Page 119 - Crying and laughing are very much alike. The expression of the face is necessary to distinguish between them. The sounds are produced by short, rapid contractions of the diaphragm. Hiccough is confined to inspiration. It is caused by a contraction of the diaphragm and a constriction of the glottis ; the current of air just entering, as it strikes the closed glottis, gives rise to the wellknown sounds.
Page 56 - ... the loss through evaporation, through permanent absorption by plants and by the ground, and other causes. The proportion borne by the available to the total rainfall varies very much, being affected by the rapidity of the rainfall...
Page 311 - The bed should be worked very slowly at first, in order to allow it to settle down and the bacterial growths to form. In this way there will be less danger of suspended matter finding its way into the body of the bed, while the material is still loose and open.
Page 191 - ... dairy companies' farms such a condition no longer prevails, but in the smaller farms it is but too frequently met with. "3. That the hands of the milker be thoroughly washed before the operation of milking is commenced, and that after once being washed they be not again employed in handling the cow otherwise than in the necessary operation of milking. Any such handling should be succeeded by another washing in fresh water before again commencing to milk. "4. That all milk venders' shops should...
Page 56 - Deep-seated springs and wells give from -3 to -4 of the total rain-fall. Such data as the above may be used in roughly estimating the probable available rain-fall of a district ; but a much more accurate and satisfactory method is to measure the actual discharge of the streams at the same time that the rain-gauge observations are made, and so to find the actual proportion of available to total rain-fall.
Page 468 - Of accident disastrous. Hence the limbs Knit into force; and the same Roman arm, That rose victorious o'er the conquer'd earth, First learn'd, while tender, to subdue the wave. Even, from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
Page 56 - The Available Rain-fall of a district is that part of the total rain-fall which remains to be stored in reservoirs, or carried away by streams, after deducting the loss through evaporation, through permanent absorption by plants and by the ground, &c.