...taint the atmosphere and so far injure health." (Report of P. Le Neve Foster, Secretary, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce...organs of respiration, and to the eyes, and being light in weight, it floats longer in the atmosphere and is carried to a greater distance, than that...

...Professor of Hygiene in the medical school at Montpellier, France, expresses the deliberate opinion " that a city with a damp climate, paved entirely with wood, would become a city of marsh fevers." He also says, in speaking of asphalt pavements, that "the absence of dust, the abatement of noise,...

...Professor of Hygiene in the medical school at Montpellier, France, expresses the deliberate opinion " that a city with a damp climate, paved entirely with wood, would become a city of marsh fevers." He also says, in speaking of asphalt pavements, that " the absence of dust, the abatement of noise,...

...sailors. Fatal epidemics at sea have been traced to timber that has become saturated with putresccnt matter, or wet with bilge water. Prof. Fonssagrives,...organs of respiration, and to the eyes, and being light in weight, it floats longer in the atmosphere and is carried to a greater distance, than that...

...noxious miasma which, proceeding from so large a surface, can not be regarded as insignificant. I аш convinced that a city with a damp climate, paved entirely with wood, would become a city of marsh fever." An article by Amat !n the Bull. Gen. de Therapeut, is of some interest in this connection....

...and Europe. A distinguished professorof hygiene at Montpelier, France, says: "The hygienist cannot look favorably upon a street covering consisting of...entirely with wood, would become a city of marsh fevers." A London report says: ''Impregnation of the wood with mineral matters, to preserve it from decay, may...

...own decomposition giving rise to noxious miasma which, proceeding from so laj'ge a surface, can not be regarded as insignificant. I am convinced that...paved entirely with wood, would become a city of marsh fever." An article by Arnat Mi the Bull. Gen. de Therapeut, is of some interest in this connection....

...Pavement," and I will read you an extract. The paper quotes a professor of hygiene in France, who says : " I am convinced that a city with a damp climate, paved...entirely with wood, would become a city of marsh fevers. Happily all the attempts have failed, and the method has been apparently finally condemned. Wood is...