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Subjects of social welfare / By the Right Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Public health.
- Social problems.
- Physical Description:
- 5 preliminary leaves,3 unnumbered pages-392 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York [etc] : Casell & company, 1889.
- Contents:
- pt., I. Public health.
- pt. II. Industrial wealth.
- pt. III. National education.
- pt I. Public health
- On public health
- Sleep and it's concomitant phenomena
- Vaccination
- Vivisection
- Disposal of the dead
- pt. II. Industrial wealth
- Depression of agriculture and fair trade
- Displacement of labour by invention
- Industrial competition and commercial freedom
- The effect of protection on wages
- On bi-metalism
- Inosculation of the arts and sciences
- Science and the state
- Petroleum- the light of the poor
- pt. III. National education
- Primary education
- Technical education
- Teaching universities and examining boards
- Universities and professional education.
- Notes:
- "Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C."--colophon.
- OCLC:
- 4196397
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