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76 THE LADIES' SANITABY ASSOCIATION
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Condition " of tlie Laboring Population of Great . Britain , with Appendices . " Local reports were sent in at the same epoch , and
the health of Scotland received its due share of attention . In into 1843 the a " Practice Supplementary of Interment report on in the Towns results " was of a presented Special Inquiry . The
writer of this article , then a child of an inquiring * mind , remembers to this daywith shuddering horrorthe contents of that " Blue
Book" of 1843 , . Unfortunately it lay , upon a shelf within the reach of handsand the awful stories it told of London
church-yards young were such , as would have gratified a ghoul . Queen On the for 9 the th of May , of 1843 " inquiring , Commissioners into the were present appointed state of by large the
to towns the and causes populous of purpose disease districts amongst in Eng the land inhabitants and Wales ; and , with into reference the best the
means of promoting and securing the public health under tion at operation present , drainage of prevailing the , and laws ventilation with and regulations regard of buildings to the now drainage , in and force the of , lands supp and l the y , the of usages water erec for
in such towns and districts , whether for purposes of health or the better protection of property _from fire ; and now far tne public health and the condition of the classes of the people of this
realm , and the salubrity and safety poorer of their dwellings , may be pro 7 - moted by the amendment of such laws , regulations , and usages . '
This Commission set to work with , the proverbial assiduity of a new broomand began ing diligently in every corner of the
Queen ' s dominions , ; routing sweep out the dirt from garret to ground floor * and pointing to the multiplied evidences of remediable causes want of .
disease of water previous for washing to carry immense ing them numbers away . Bad of human drains , beings foul air packed ,
together in narrow streets , and small houses , combined with a personal and domestic condition of what we may term chronic
uncleanlinessthese were the causes of " frequency of sickness and excessive destruction _, of human life" discovered by the new broom . The
first sanitary seven report folio condition . pages ( 1844 of ) of was evidence particular accompanied , and towns by . several by The four special second hundred papers report and on ( thirty 1845 the - )
length treated briefl of " Remedial y of the " Measures Causes . of " Disease Fifty , towns " and ht were at considerable found visited to b be y
in direction a tolerable of the state Commissioners as to drainage , and and " cleansing only eig . " wore Of the supply of water , yet more unfavorable accounts were presented . dom rather
than exactl The two annual two per cent average cent , of the or mortality one population in fifty of the . but In king this health rate y varied was districts greatl it more y was in
different y localities per . ., In London the , deaths were as one in thirty-nine ,
' "thirt in in thirty Birming y , and -thre ham in e Liverpool , arid in Bristol Leeds it was one as one as in hi thirty in gh thirty as -two one -seven , in in Manche , every in Sheffield twent ster y one -nine one in .
76 The Ladies' Sanitaby Association
76 THE LADIES' SANITABY _ASSOCIATION
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/4/
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