Report to the superintendents and visitors of sections in the recent Sanitary Visitation Movement, with suggestions as to a permanent scheme : also, proceedings of public meeting, and appendix of relative documents / submitted by Dr. Gairdner.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Report to the superintendents and visitors of sections in the recent Sanitary Visitation Movement, with suggestions as to a permanent scheme : also, proceedings of public meeting, and appendix of relative documents / submitted by Dr. Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EEPOET, &c I shall endeavour in this Keport to present, as briefly and clearly as possible, the general result of the answers to questions submitted by me, on January 8th, 1867, with a view to elicit the opinion and suggestions of Superintendents and Visitors on the expediency of a Scheme of Permanent Sanitary Visitation, carried on by voluntary agencies connected with the different Congregations. The questions submitted were as follows:— 1. In each Section, and in each Subdivision of each Sec- tion under a single Superintendent, how many of the families visited are in circumstances to require an occasional visit on sanitary grounds, even when Epidemic Disease is not known to be present or impending ? 2. How often—i.e., at what intervals of time on an average —should the visits be repeated in ordinary times, so as to secure the full benefit of the sympathy and support of the Visitors ? 3. How many families in each Subdivision could a single Visitor easily overtake at this rate of visitation? or what number of Visitors would permanently supply the Sub- division? 4. Any further suggestions arising from the practical ex- perience of Visitors or Superintendents as to the working of a permanent Scheme on the general basis now in operation ? To these questions the number of formal answers received hitherto amounts to between twenty and thirty, mostly from Superintendents, and, therefore, representing the results of experience in considerable Sections of the recent visitation; besides which, other replies of a less formal kind, or repre-