Volume 1

First report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence.

  • Great Britain. Metropolitan Sanitary Commission.
Date:
1848
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Credit: First report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vi Page Extent of practical reduction of sizes nnd expense not yet ascertained . . 58 The practicable reduction of expense, and increase of efficiency, as great in town as in agricultural drainage 60 Absence of rpsjionsibility for excessive and wastorul expenditure . . . . C2 On the occasion of storms, houses ■which drain into sewers often worse con- ditioned than tliose' having no drainage 64 The removal of dscomposing refuse preferable to the removal of emanations by ventilation 06 Exemplifications of exceses in size, and of waste in house-drainage . . . fi'i Interest of officers placed in opposition to their duty by per centages on expen- diture . • 70 Practicable expense of draining courts and alleys 72 Consequences of conducting works,without any survey 73 Consequences of going on ■without surveys 4 Irregularities prevailing in all the districts for -want of the surveys .... 70 Erroneous and oppressive distributions of charges 78 Siammary of conclusions in relation to the cholera t>0 Summary of conclusions in relation to the administration of the law of sewers . S2 Expediency of uniting the districts on both sides of the river under one jurisdic- tion , 84 Future advance of system depends on efficient officers ^0 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE. No. 1.—R, Bowie, Esq. Surgeon, East Smithfield, Ist part. First appearance of cholera in the metropolis, 1832 87 Cholera first appeared in localities where malignant fever was prevalent . . SH Cholera governed by the same circumstances, and found in the same places as typhus ... .... 90 Cholera and typhus preventable by proper sanitary arrangements . . • . 92 Cholera not contagious '-'4 Condition of the population chiefly attacked . . . . . . . .95 Danger arising from removal and fear . . . . Cholera not contagious 97 jR. Bowie, Esq. 2nd part. Description of model lodging-house in Glasshouse-yard 93 The spread of typhus fever preventible 102 Diffusion of typhus from a cesspool in the Eastern Asylum 103 Drainage ofmodel lodging-house 104 Drainage and water-closets of the Eastern Asylum 103 Bathing and washing apparatus, and baths in Glasshouse-yard , . . . .106 Habits of cleanliness-easily promoted among the poor 108 No, '2.—li. L. Hooper, Esq. Surgeon, Soulhwark. Cholera in Southwarkin 1832 109 Typhus not epidemic during the prevalence of cholera . . • • . • .110 Measures pf alleviation adopted . . 111