Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The advantages of a “ constant ” over an inter- mittent supply are too obvious to require stating. In London some districts are supplied in this way, but they are very few. If possible, pitch your tent by preference in one of them. The amount required depends to some extent upon the habits of the occupant; but a full healthy provision, with due allowance for the minimum of which have long proved so detrimental to measures for the improve- ment of the health of the population. I am to transmit herewith, for your consideration, copies of the representations that, with general public support, the association have heretofore submitted to your predecessor on the principles of the amendments needed especially in respect to the conditions of the water-supply of the metropolisj and I may now add as to its drainage, which may be thus summarised. That measures should be taken for the preven- tion of the stagnant detention of water in cisterns, by wThich good supplies are made bad, and bad supplies are made worse ; that sup- plies from improved sources should be carried direct and constantly into every house, and the fouled water constantly removed by self- cleansing drains or channels from every house, and from the town, by works under one and the same authority, and that authority a public and responsible one. That the success of any administrative measure for the sanitary improvement of the metropolis will be dependent on the competence, in science and skill, of the executive officers employed ; and that it is requisite that adequate securities should be provided to insure such competence in all new appoint- ments. That it is the confident belief of those conversant with sanitation that the cost of efficient measures for the reduction of existing excessive death rates will, under efficient administration, be less than the present incurable burdens arising from excessive sickness and mortality. I am to state further that the sanitary authorities are agreed that the annual money burdens of excessive sickness and excessive numbers of funerals from premature mortality in the metropolis exceed what would be the annual charge of efficient preventive works, which can only he obtained by a properly constituted public authority under a complete unity of administra- tion. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Westminster.—April 13, 1883.”