Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With AppendicesChadwick, Edwin
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With Appendices
Chadwick, Edwin
Housing -- Great Britain; Public health -- Great Britain
Instances of the neglect of street cleansing—
In Manchester 38
In Leeds 39
Instances of the consequences on the public health of the
neglect of road cleansing in rural districts in England
and in Scotland 42
Discipline in respect to cleanliness of the army superior to
the civic economy of the towns 44
_House cleansing as connected with street cleansing and
sewerage._
Instances of the sanitary condition of houses in the
metropolis where the cesspools do not communicate with the
drains 45
Small value of refuse in London, in consequence of the
expense of cartage 46
Effects on the health of the accumulation of refuse near the
residences of the labouring classes: examples in
Greenock 46
Leeds 47
Cleansing by means of water-closets applicable to the poorer
districts as being the most economical 48
Instance of the removal of the refuse of the city of
Edinburgh by sewerage, and of its application to
agriculture by irrigation 48
Objections by the citizens of Edinburgh to irrigation by
sewers in the immediate vicinity of the city 49
Value of the refuse of London, on the scale of value of the
refuse of Edinburgh 51
Modifications of the mode of sewerage of Edinburgh, to make
a system of cleansing innoxious and profitable, and extend
it to the residences of the poorer classes 52
Expense of street cleansing in Manchester 53
Defects of the prevalent mode of removing the refuse of
houses by cartage, or otherwise than by sewerage 54
Instances of defective construction of sewers 55
Evidence on the action of improved modes of sewerage 55
Effects of different descriptions of streets upon the public
health 59
Proposed mode of cleansing streets by sweeping the refuse
into the sewers 60
Similar mode proposed of cleansing Paris 61
_Supplies of water._ 63
Necessity of improved supplies of water for house and street
cleansing 63
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