| 单词 | sanitary reform |
| 释义 | > as lemmassanitary reform a. Of or pertaining to the conditions affecting health, esp. with reference to cleanliness and precautions against infection and other deleterious influences; pertaining to or concerned with sanitation. Also occasionally of conditions or surroundings: Free from deleterious influences. Also sanitary reform, sanitary reformer. sanitary cordon: see cordon n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > [adjective] sanitary1842 the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > conducive to health > sanitary sanitary1842 1842 (title) Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain. 1849 Act 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63 §1 Provision..for improving the Sanitary condition of Towns and populous places. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 427 It may well be..that sanitary police and medical discoveries may have added several more years to the average length of human life. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. i. 4 A sanitary reformer would not be long in guessing the cause of my unhealthiness. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. iv. 68 Sanitary reform is thrust out of sight, simply because its necessity is too humiliating to the pride of all. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iii. 38 A committee of persons was formed, who were supposed to have some skill in sanitary science. 1875 Act 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55 §5 Urban sanitary authorities and rural sanitary authorities..invested with the powers in this Act mentioned. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 798/1 The want of constant supervision of the slaughter-houses is thought..to be a serious defect in the sanitary law of the country. 1884 Times 4 Oct. 4/5 Dr Jaeger's sanitary woollen system has been adopted by some of our most eminent sanitary reformers. 1966 N. Longmate King Cholera xi. 112 The sanitary reformer triumphed over the cleric: the churches were shut for one whole Sunday. 1974 H. R. F. Keating Underside iv. 41 There's an immense amount to be done in sanitary reform. < as lemmas |
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