[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Gainsborough U.D.C.

  • Gainsborough (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Gainsborough U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thev should possess all the advantages the mode.r A reject can design, with moderate means only at command. But hot baths? dressing rooms and really capacious swimming batas should be deemed a sine qua non, the link, the covered terrace,! le ay for the band and a refreshment room being provided for n the space and erected if and when the means and the approval of those most interested sanctioned the completion of the work so well begun. It has l)60n said that distance lends enchantment to the scene, but I fear the length of our la. town negatives the enchantment at the opposite end to all those honest prosy workers to whom time and muscle have to undergo scrutiny as well as washing and the daily meals. Jubilee Dives where are your hands ? Streets. % Our streets are the wonder of our age for they run up so quickly, and, like boys, some of them improve as they grow. Gen- erally speaking they are aesthetically and symbolically planned, the Surveyor and Architect knowing that a straight line is indicative of rectitude and a curved one is the mark of beauty—a later thought. “ Her ’prentice ban’ she tried on man And then she made the lasses, O.” So that with rectitude and beauty combined we shall soon have what the grandest cities of Ancient and Modern times tried and still try to excell in. Many of our broad streets which allow full expansion to the joyful lung are uniform and continuous, whilst others form a sort of chain of semi-detached parallelograms which not only increase the breathing space, but give effect to design. Light and shade have been well cared for by individual fancies, the bashful houses receding from the line and the bolder ones advancing, as if to scru- inise new comers. The latter get the most dust, the former the most darkness. Still we are advancing, and when our destructive and con- structive education is finished, trip-trains to New Gainsborough may be expected to lift up the Railway funds. Perfection, however, is not the work of a day and we must be content to keep moving slowly forward, planning good broad