Report of the Health of London Association on the sanitary condition of the metropolis; : being a digest of the information contained in the replies returned to three thousand lists of queries, which were circulated amongst clergymen, medical men, solicitors, surveyors, architects, engineers, parochial officers, and the public.

  • Health of Towns Association (London, England)
Date:
1847
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Credit: Report of the Health of London Association on the sanitary condition of the metropolis; : being a digest of the information contained in the replies returned to three thousand lists of queries, which were circulated amongst clergymen, medical men, solicitors, surveyors, architects, engineers, parochial officers, and the public. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I. —To instruct the people as to the evils which re¬ sult from the present defective sewerage, drainage, venti¬ lation, street-cleansing, and supply of water ; from interment in towns, and from other sources of injury to public health > and to show the beneficial influences which the removal of these evils would certainly exert on their physical and moral condition. II. —To diffuse information respecting the most efficient and economic means of carrying out the necessary remedial measures, and, more especially, to disabuse the public mind as to the expense which would be thereby incurred. III. —-To direct attention to the increased security to life and property which would result from the appointment of properly-qualified Officers of Health, whose duty it should be to ascertain and certify the fact of death, and to investigate and lay before competent authorities the circumstances and agents which deteriorate, generally or locally, the health of the community, so that by a summary process they might be effectually removed. IV. —To solicit the co-operation of the Government, the Municipal and Parochial Authorities, the Clergy, the Medical Profession, Surveyors, Architects, Engineers, and the Public generally, in carrying out the objects of the Association. V. —To adopt such other measures as may appear best calculated to carry into effect the above objects.