The Sanitary evolution of LondonT.F. Unwin, 1907 - 440 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
appointed Bermondsey Bethnal Green buildings bye-laws carried causes cent central authority cesspools cholera City cleanliness Clerkenwell Commissioners courts death death-rate defective District Boards drainage drains duty dwellings effect enforce epidemic evils evolution of London existing factories families fever filth Fulham Giles Government habitation Health for St Health for Whitechapel hospitals improvement increase infectious disease inhabitants insanitary inspection Islington labour Lambeth landlords large number legislation living London County Council matter Medical Officer ment metropolis Metropolitan Asylums Board Metropolitan Board mortality necessity neglect nuisances Nuisances Removal occupied Officer of Health overcrowding owners Paddington Pancras parish Parliament places poor population prevent provision public health Public Health London ratepayers regarded regulations removal result rooms Rotherhithe Sanitary Authority sanitary condition sanitary evolution Sanitary Inspectors Select Committee sewage sewerage sewers Shoreditch sickness smallpox streets tenants tenements tion ventilation Vestries and District whilst whole workshops wrote the Medical
Pasajes populares
Página 143 - Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house...
Página 383 - We are strongly of opinion that the water, as supplied to the consumer in London, is of a very high standard of excellence and of purity, and that it is suitable in quality for all household purposes.
Página 36 - With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate— with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life— here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two: here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption; an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside: a shameful testimony to future ages, how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
Página 36 - Into a beastly scrap of ground which a Turk would reject as a savage abomination, and a Caffre would shudder at, they bring our dear brother here departed, to receive Christian burial.
Página 194 - For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family...
Página 163 - Every building used or intended to be used as a dwelling house, unless all the rooms can be lighted and ventilated from a street or alley adjoining, shall have in the rear or on the side thereof an open space exclusively belonging thereto of the extent at least of one hundred square feet.
Página 35 - In the metropolis on spaces of ground which do not exceed 203 acres, closely surrounded by the abodes of the living, layer upon layer, each consisting of a population numerically equivalent to a large army of 20,000 adults, and nearly 30,000 youths and children, is every year imperfectly interred. Within the period of the existence of the present generation, upward of a million of dead must have been interred in these same spaces.
Página 6 - ... is the same as if twenty or thirty thousand of these people were annually taken out of their wretched dwellings and put to death, the actual fact being that they are allowed to remain in them and die.
Página 396 - ... the government of London must be intrusted to one body, exercising certain functions throughout all the areas covered by the name, and to a number of local bodies exercising certain other functions within the local areas which collectively make up London, the central body and the local bodies deriving their authority as representative bodies by direct election, and the functions assigned to each being determined so as to secure complete independence and responsibility to every member of the system.
Página 57 - Contemplating such cases, I feel the deepest conviction that no sanitary system can be adequate to the requirements of the time, or can cure those radical evils which infest the under-framework of society, unless the importance be distinctly recognized, and the duty manfully undertaken, of improving the social condition of the poor.