English Sanitary Institutions: Reviewed in Their Course of Development, and in Some of Their Political and Social RelationsJohn Murray, 1897 - 516 páginas |
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Act of Parliament administration afterwards amendment appointed authorities began Bill Board of Health British causes central century Chadwick CHAP CHAP.VIII chief Cholera City City of London classes Commission Commissioners course death disease districts districts of England drainage duty early effect endeavours England English epidemic Europe existing filth Franciscan Hospital House of Commons human important impotent poor infected influence inquiry inspectors interest labour legislation less London Lord Mayor mankind matter Mediæval Medical Department Medical Officer ment Metropolis nuisances Officers of Health organisation Parliament particular persons Philan Physicians places political poor Poor Law Board poor-law population poverty powers practice Preventive principle Privy Council Profession proposed Public Health Public Health Act purposes question reference reform regard regulations reign relation religious respect Roman Rome Royal sewers sick social sort spirit success thropy tion towns United Kingdom vaccination various water-supply СНАР
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Página 136 - Review the state of England at the period when that journal began should be had in remembrance. The Catholics were not emancipated — the Corporation and Test Acts were unrepealed — the...
Página 149 - Others may hold other opinions, but this is mine, and I proclaim it. What are we to think of a government whose good fortune is supposed to spring from the calamities of its subjects, whose aggrandizement grows out of the miseries of mankind?
Página 219 - Lord Palmerston would, therefore, suggest that the best course which the people of this country can pursue, to deserve that the further progress of the cholera should be stayed, will be, to employ the interval that will elapse between the present time and the beginning of next spring, in planning and executing measures by which those portions of their towns and cities which are inhabited by the poorest...
Página 154 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.
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Página 192 - That the various forms of epidemic, endemic and other disease caused, or aggravated, or propagated chiefly amongst the labouring classes by atmospheric impurities produced by decomposing animal and vegetable substances by damp and filth, and close and overcrowded dwellings prevail amongst the population in every part of the kingdom, whether dwelling in separate houses, in rural villages, in small towns, in the larger towns — as they have been found to prevail in the lowest districts of the metropolis.
Página 180 - Labourers are suddenly thrown, by infectious disease, into a state of destitution, for which immediate relief must be given. In the case of death, the widow and the children are thrown as paupers on the parish. The amount of burthens thus produced is frequently so great as to render it good economy on the part of the administrators of the poor laws to incur the charges for preventing the evils, where they are ascribable to physical causes, which there are no other means of removing.
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