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
Class similar to the Chiffoniers found in English towns 94
Their personal habits 95
Collateral benefit of more effectual cleansing of towns in
diminishing degrading employments 96
III. CIRCUMSTANCES CHIEFLY IN THE INTERNAL ECONOMY AND BAD
VENTILATION OF PLACES OF WORK; WORKMEN’S LODGING-HOUSES,
DWELLINGS, AND THE DOMESTIC HABITS AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF
THE LABOURING CLASSES. 98
Various effects of overcrowding places of work, as shown in
the case of one class of workmen 98
Comparative ease and economy of measures of prevention
rather than of relief 104
Sanitary effects of ventilation on workpeople at Glasgow 107
Effects of defective ventilation on the health of milliners
and dressmakers in the metropolis 107
Instances of the effects of defective ventilation of
sleeping rooms of the working classes 108
Effects of the defective economy of lodging-houses and
places of repose exemplified in the duration of life of
one class of workmen 112
Instances of errors in respect to the sanitary effects of
particular occupations 113
Injurious effects of deficient ventilation in schools 119
_Bad ventilation and overcrowding private houses._ 120
Great apparent increase in the proportionate number of
houses according to the last census attributable to a
different mode of making the return 120
Instances of great overcrowding in cottages in—
Greenock, 121; Tranent, 121; Sleaford union 122
_The want of separate apartments and overcrowding of private
dwellings._ 122
Effects of the overcrowding of private dwellings on the
morals of the population, instances of, in—
The Ampthill union, 122; the Leighton Buzzard union, 123;
the Bicester union, 123; the Romsey union, 123; among the
border peasantry, 124; in Manchester, Liverpool,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Hull, 124; in Leeds, 126; in
Nottingham, 126; in Clitheroe 126
Instances of the injurious influences of bad tenements upon
the personal condition and moral habits of the inmates 128
Effects of noxious agencies in preventing frugality and
promoting intemperance 129
In preventing the influence of education 132
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