Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain: With AppendicesW. Clowes and sons, 1842 - 457 pagina's This report includes a careful analysis of causes of death in 1838 and 1839 and gives a clear description of insanitary conditions in England and Wales. Due to this and an earlier 1833 report, the foundations of later systems of government inspection were laid, a Public Health Act was passed in 1848, and a General Board of Health was established. Includes maps illustrating public health issues such as deaths, contagious or epidemic diseases, housing conditions, etc. |
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department ... Edwin Chadwick,Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
amongst amount annum appears Asthma attention average Bethnal Green Board building Camborne causes cent charge cholera circumstances cleanliness cleansing Commissioners common common lodging-houses construction cost cottages crowded deaths disease drainage drains Dundee dwellings effects epidemic erected evidence evils expense families feet fever filth Finsbury divisions frequently Glasgow habits Holborn Holborn and Finsbury houses improvement increase inhabitants injurious inmates inquiry instances labouring classes labouring population land Leeds less lodging-houses London malaria Manchester manufacturing manure means medical officer ment metropolis Miner mode mortality neighbourhood noxious nuisance observed obtained occasion occupied parish persons poor practice present prevalent prisoners privies proportion public health rates refuse removal rent respect road rural districts sanitary condition sanitary measures Scotland sewerage sewers sickness streets supplies of water surveyor tailors tenements tion town Tranent typhus typhus fever union ventilation wages whilst Whitechapel whole workmen workpeople
Populaire passages
Pagina 345 - The security of lives and property may sometimes require so speedy a remedy as not to allow time to call on the person on whose property the mischief has arisen, to remedy it. In such cases an individual would be justified in abating a nuisance from omission without notice. In all other cases of such nuisances, persons should not take the law into their own hands, but follow the advice of Lord Hale, and appeal to a court of justice.
Pagina 367 - That for the protection of the labouring classes and of the ratepayers against inefficiency and waste in all new structural arrangements for the protection of the public health, and to ensure public confidence that the expenditure will be beneficial, securities should be taken that all new local public works are 'devised and conducted by responsible officers qualified by the possession of the science and skill of civil engineers.
Pagina 24 - There were no privies or drains- there, and the dungheaps received all filth which the swarm of wretched inhabitants could give; and we learned that a considerable part of the rent of the houses was paid by the produce of the dunglieaps. Thus, worse oft...
Pagina 291 - And the reason why the law allows this private and summary method of doing one's self justice, is because injuries of this kind, which obstruct or annoy such things as are of daily convenience and use, require an immediate remedy, and cannot wait for the slow progress of the ordinary forms of justice.
Pagina 365 - That the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars in which the country has been engaged in modern times.
Pagina 209 - The most pernicious infection, next the plague, is the smell of the jail, when prisoners have been long, and close, and nastily kept; whereof we have had in our time experience twice or thrice ; when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended the business or were present, sickened upon it, and died.
Pagina 65 - ... that in the actual condition of the lower classes, conveniences of this description must precede and form the habits. It is in vain to ^ expect of the great majority of them that the disposition, still less the habits, will precede or anticipate and create the conveniences. Even I...
Pagina 93 - ... agricultural population few, and afflicted with rheumatism and other maladies, arising from damp and an excess of water ; which, if removed, would relieve them from a cause of disease, the land from an impediment to production, and, if conveyed for the use of the town population, would give that population the element of which they stand in peculiar need as a means to relieve them from that which is their own cause of depression, and return it for use on the land as a means of the highest fertility.
Pagina 366 - That the expenses of local public works are in general unequally and unfairly assessed, oppressively and uneconomically collected, by separate collections, wastefully expended in separate and inefficient operations by unskilled and practically irresponsible officers. That the existing law for the protection of the public health and the constitutional machinery for reclaiming its execution, such as the Courts Leet, have fallen into desuetude, and are in the state indicated by the prevalence of the...
Pagina 91 - I have seen them take a bone from a dung-heap, and gnaw it while reeking hot with the fermentation of decay. Bones, from which the meat had been cut raw, and which had still thin strips of flesh adhering to them, they scraped carefully with their knives, and put the bits, no matter how befouled with dirt, into a wallet or pocket appropriated to the purpose. They have told me, that whether in broth or grilled, they were the most savoury dish that could be imagined. I have not observed that these creatures...