The Health Exhibition literature. Vol. XIX : Return of number of visitors and statistical tables. Official guide. Guide to the sanitary and insanitary houses. Handbook to the aquarium and fish culture department. Anthropometric laboratory. Public health in China. National education in China. Diet, dress, and dwellings of the Chinese in relation to health.

  • International Health Exhibition (1884 : London, England)
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1884
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Credit: The Health Exhibition literature. Vol. XIX : Return of number of visitors and statistical tables. Official guide. Guide to the sanitary and insanitary houses. Handbook to the aquarium and fish culture department. Anthropometric laboratory. Public health in China. National education in China. Diet, dress, and dwellings of the Chinese in relation to health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ham- phrey’s iron build- ings. London Water Com- panies’ Pavilion. Prince of Wales’s Pavilion. Messrs. GUlow & Co. now to visit the large groups of central buildings erected in the grounds. The best plan to adopt for this purpose will be to walk again to the centre of the South Gallery to the spot marked by the large beer barrel of the Tottenham Lager Beer Brewery Company, and then turn to the right, i.e. in a northerly direction, up the Central Avenue. On the right-hand side, immediately on leaving the Gallery, is the office of Mr, J. Humphreys, the builder of the Royal Pavilion, and the sole contractor and builder for the whole of the convenient iron buildings, of which there are so many scattered all over the grounds. A little further on the same side, and beyond the building given up to Bakeries, is the handsome pavilion of the London Waterworks, which, with its fountain, its tesselated floor, and handsomely decorated roof and walls, is one of the most striking features in the Exhibition. There are eight Metropolitan Companies, viz,:— The Kent Waterworks Company. The New River Company. The East London Waterworks Company. The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company. The West Middlesex Waterworks Company. The Grand Junction Waterworks Company. The Lambeth Waterworks Company. The Chelsea Waterworks Company. These Companies have combined to exhibit, in this pavilion, pictures showing the intakes and portions of their works, maps of the districts supplied, descriptions of the works, and specially prepared statistical tables, giving, amongst other things, particulars as to quantity, and the area under constant supply. The plan of the building is octangu- lar, and each of the Companies has one wall to itself for the display of the above particulars. In the centre is a handsome fountain. The floors are laid in tesselated pavement, and the joists of the roof prettily decorated with aquatic plants. The roof is glazed by Messrs. Johnson Brothers on their system of imperishable dry-glazing. This system is very effective for curved roofs or domes, no bent glass being required. It is well known that it is practically impossible to keep putty-glazing water-tight in roofs in consequence of the expansion and contraction of the glass under varying temperatures. The building is surrounded by an outer corridor, in which are eight drinking-fountains, each supplied b> a separate Company with water specially brought into the Exhibition for the purpose. In the outer corridor are also full- sized sections of the filtering-beds, together with models of portions of the different Companies’ works, showing the methods of filtration and , distribution, and a section of a street, showing the water laid on from 1 the main to a dwelling-house. The principal entrance is in the form of an arch, made of pipes used by the Companies for the supply of water. This Exhibition has been organised and superintended by ^ Lieut.-Col. Sir Francis Bolton as a display of the work done by the ] Metropolitan Companies. Close to the Water Companies’ building is the spacious and hand- somely furnished Pavilion of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, constructed by Mr. Humphreys, and decorated and furnished by Messrs. Gillow & Co. It is approached by means of a covered way, part of which is glazed without putty by Mr. J. W. Helliwell on his patent system of imperishable