A manual of hygiene : public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws ; for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

  • Cameron, Charles Alexander, 1830-1921.
Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene : public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws ; for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    that which produces the nuisance complained of. All works in which sulphuric acid, muriatic acid, nitric acid, bleaching powder, and salt cake are produced are under the supervision of inspectors of alkali works ; but if the medical officer can distinctly trace any offensive and dangerous effluvium to any such works, the owner is liable to be prosecuted under the Sanitary Act. Bone Boiling and soap and candle making are processes which frequently produce emanations injurious to health. These pro- cesses should be conducted in close places and in such a way that any noxious effluvia produced may be passed through a furnace and from thence sent into the atmosphere through a high chimney. The mode of dealing with nuisances arising from ammonia works, &c., is explained in the chapter on Pollution of the Atmosphere. Gas Works sometimes produce a nuisance either at the place where the gas is manufactured or by leakages from the mains. Bad Odours in a dwelling or its yard, proceeding from a defec-' tive sewer, are nuisances of frequent occurrence. Steam Whistles used in factories for the purpose of awakening the workpeople in the early morning are a nuisance, as they fre- quently disturb the sick and annoy the healthy. They are dealt with by 35 & 36 Vict., c. 61, s. 2. In Section 19 of 29 and 30 Vict., c. 90, and sec. 8 of 18 and 19 Vict., c. 121, there are definitions of nuisances given CHAPTER IV. VITAL STATISTICS. It seems an inexorable law of nature that at least 11 human beings out of every 1,000 living must die every year. As a matter of fact, from 15 to 40 per 1,000 perish, the variation in the numbers, being chiefly, sometimes solely, produced by local causes. In the United Kingdomabout 21 persons die annually out of every 1,000. Sanitary science has but two objects to accomplish—to reduce to the normal number mortality from disease, and to diminish the amount of sickness. That the number of persons perishing annually from disease so considerably exceeds the inevitable number above-men- tioned is sufficient evidence that sanitarians have a vast work before them, as important, difficult, and onerous as any that concerns mankind in matters temporal. To enable sanitarians to estimate the amount or rather the result of their work, accurate statistical information relative to the number of deaths and births, and the amount and nature of present disease, is of the highest degree of importance. Unfortunately, there is no registration of disease in these countries ; but we have records of the births and deaths