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dustrious Classes " lias been for some years in ( operation . They have erected large building's with proper sanitary arrangements for
the accommodation of from sixty to one hundred and ten families each , in different districtsin localities inhabited by the same class . In
all other social conditions , these tenants remain as before . They number at present an aggregate population of upwards of two
thousand , but whilst the average annual mortality of the whole of London is twenty-five per thousand , the mortality in the oldest and
largest of these buildings , on an average of seven years , from . 1850 to 185 7 has been onlseventeen thousand . There is in one
of the suburbs , of London y a lace per called the Potterieswherein the mortality for the year ending p March , 1853 , ( not an ep , idemic year , )
reached forty in the thousand , and the infant mortality was seven times as great as in the ' Metropolitan Buildings . ' In the whole of
London the death-rate among infants at the same period was _& ve times greater than in the Model Dwellings . "
We have thus briefly pointed out to our readers the primary causes which induced the great sanitary movement of modern times ,
and the official regulations in which it is now embodied , together with some of the remarkable results in the saving of human life .
We would ask those who are little used to deal with figures , and to whom such terms as " Boards " and " Acts of Parliament" convey
none but an abstract meaning , to exert their imaginations in filling in the details of local activity . To say that the average rate of mortality
is , high in any given district , means that when a mother looks round upon her populous nursery she must expect to lose one or more of those
little children before they have grown up . It means that if a child is seized with hooping cough or scarlet fever , that child has a bad
chance of recovery . It means that the young mother is in more than ordinary danger of dying in childbed , and that the soldiers
and sailors who are born and bred in that particular district are means physicall that y ill fitted coffins to sustain will be the b glory ht of of the their undertaker native land and . that It
many oug , _. the milliner will often sit up at night to finish mourning clothes * The doctor ' s charge will be heavyand he will not be able to save
the precious life , though the scanty , means of the unhappy family be taxed to their utmost to meet the fruitless bill . These are the
common every-day miseries which afflict a district suffering from bad drains and ill constructed houses . By some means or other
the grand political agencies of Parliament with their Acts and their Boards must be narrowed down to a minute domestic application .
Not only must the municipal action of town corporations be inhouses voked , built in order under that conditions the pari of shes decency may and be drained security and but we the must new
, descend to much lower particulars . The cesspool ( the great curse of ancient buildings ) must not onlbe closedbut got rid ofor the
little ones will all be down with y fever in the , next damp , season .
The chimney niust be cured of smoking , the tutcher must not sell
The; Xadies' Sanitary Association. 81
the ; xadies' sanitary Association . 81
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/9/
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