Hints on sanitary fittings and their application / by Robert Marr Wharam.

  • Wharam, Robert Marr.
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints on sanitary fittings and their application / by Robert Marr Wharam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that an intending tenant or purchaser may be able to obtain a form of warranty as to what he is undertaking; whilst on the other hand the lessor or vendor, as the case may be, may be protected from costly litigation. Perhaps the difficulty would be met by some form of registration of houses at the time of erection. Whether this certificate should be given by local authority, or whether the duty of self-protection should not rather be left to the individual, is a matter for consideration by all interested. It is certainly anomalous that a government which imposes fines for comparatively harmless adulterations of food, and restricts the sale of poisons, the storage of substances dangerous to life, and the carrying on of trades prejudicial to health, should tolerate the practice of letting and selling houses with ineffi¬ cient sanitary provisions which are practically death-traps to those who inhabit them. But it has to be said that when the principles and details of modern sanitation are more fully understood the public will be in a position to protect themselves. June 24, 1891.