Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Edmonton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector.

  • Ranger, William, 1800-1863.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Edmonton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prevailing Disk ask.—Mr. Hammond, to whom I am in- debted for much valuablo information, stated that the cases attended by him as medical officer of the Union in this, the lower, districl alone in the quarter ending 25th March, 1849, were, In Water-lane:— Acute inflammatory type ...» 3 Common inflammation, diarrhoea, &c. . 11 Orchard-street:— Acute inflammatory type . . , , 3 Diarrhoea, &c. . . . , ,14 Eaton-place:— Malignant typhus . . ... 2 Acute inflammatory type .... 2 Diarrhoea, &c. . , , . . 16 . Church-lane:—■ Malignant typhus . , . , , 2 Acute inflammatory type .... 1 Diarrhoea ...... 4 Claremont-street:—• Malignant typhus ..... I Acute inflammatory type .... 6 Diarrhoea, &c., and other diseases . .32 That in Eaton-place and Orchard-street the common lodging- houses furnished 37 cases of the Irish typhus, all of which were taken into the infirmary, whilst Claremont-street generally furnishes a larger amount of disease than any other part of his district, a fact attributed to the want of drainage and cleanliness. Mr. Adlington, relieving officer, stated :— I have relieved, in the year ending- 25tli March, no less than 27 families, comprising 94 persons, on account of fever alone, in sums varying from 8s. to 21. each. Mr. Biddle, in confirming the statement of Mr, Hammond, stated, that in addition to other places. Water-lane is not only badly drained, but in a disgusting state, calculated to generate disease ; that the natural water-courses are fringed with i5rivies. Ventilation and Overcrowding,—The arrangements for ventilating and cleansing the dwellings of the poorer class are on the lowest scale. In visiting and examining closely many of these wretched abodes, I was not prepared in a comparative rural district to find so much neglect on the part of the owners in making ordinary provisions for cleanliness on the part of their tenants. Mr. Hammond, in speaking of Fore-street Ward, said the houses at one end of Claremont-street are small and badly ventilated, the inhabitants dirty, and their condition bad. Eatan-j)lace contains 20 liouses, with an average of 10 persons to each house, exclusive of lodgers; and Dawson s buildings