English Sanitary Institutions: Reviewed in Their Course of Development, and in Some of Their Political and Social RelationsCassell, limited, 1890 - 496 pages |
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... Rome under Augustus : Sewers ; Pavement ; Aqueducts ; Thermæ ; Latrines and urinals ; Removal of City refuse ; Streets , and their cleanliness ; Law as to Nuisances , public and private . Regulation of Trade . Medical Profession from ...
... Rome under Augustus : Sewers ; Pavement ; Aqueducts ; Thermæ ; Latrines and urinals ; Removal of City refuse ; Streets , and their cleanliness ; Law as to Nuisances , public and private . Regulation of Trade . Medical Profession from ...
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... Rome even of his day , there survived the old religious fondness for Tiber water : just as , in our own time and country , sanitary reformers have again and again had to seem sacrilegious in their protests against this or that Holy Well ...
... Rome even of his day , there survived the old religious fondness for Tiber water : just as , in our own time and country , sanitary reformers have again and again had to seem sacrilegious in their protests against this or that Holy Well ...
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... Rome we can to- day see still standing in almost imperishable masonry a vast sewer which tradition counts to have been among the public works of the elder Tarquin nearly twenty - five centuries ago , and with which was connected ...
... Rome we can to- day see still standing in almost imperishable masonry a vast sewer which tradition counts to have been among the public works of the elder Tarquin nearly twenty - five centuries ago , and with which was connected ...
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... Rome , intersected by its Tiberine swamps , was a well - marked case of the physical circumstances which I have sketched ; and the cloaca maxima , and other drainage - works which won dry land for the ancient city , illustrate the ...
... Rome , intersected by its Tiberine swamps , was a well - marked case of the physical circumstances which I have sketched ; and the cloaca maxima , and other drainage - works which won dry land for the ancient city , illustrate the ...
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... Rome . In that city was established as early as 494 B.C. the office of the Ediles , " Sunto Ediles curatores urbis , annona , ludorum- que solemnium ; " fifty - two years later , the further office of the Censors was established ; and ...
... Rome . In that city was established as early as 494 B.C. the office of the Ediles , " Sunto Ediles curatores urbis , annona , ludorum- que solemnium ; " fifty - two years later , the further office of the Censors was established ; and ...
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