The sanitary condition of Great Yarmouth; a lecture, Volume 5C. Barber, 1847 - 44 pages |
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accumulate Act of Parliament Air and Ventilation annual mortality Apothecary atmosphere average BISHOP OF NORWICH body breathe brother's keeper BURIAL-GROUNDS cause cesspool cities and towns closeness consumption country districts courts covered sewer crowded death decency defective ventilation deficient sewerage Denes disease ditto due supply dwellings effluvia estimate evil I noticed evolved expense extra mortality factories farther filthy foul gentry Health of Towns houses inferior sanitary condition inhabitants INSTITUTE FOR YARMOUTH Leeds Liverpool living London lungs measles Metropolis mortality and shortening neglect Newcastle-on-Tyne nuisance offal open drains pecuniary poor population proposition public buildings pure air pure water putrefaction Quay remedies river sanitary measures scrofula sickness slaughter-houses Southwood Smith Street suffer supply of pure supply of water system of drainage system of sewerage tion town districts Towns Association Towns Bill typhus fever Vampyre vegetable matter VISCOUNT EBRINGTON vitiated whilst Workhouse workshop yards YARMOUTH AND SOUTHTOWN YOUNG MAN'S INSTITUTE
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Page 32 - Prison-doors should be barred on the outside, no less heavily and carefully than they are barred within ; that the universal diffusion of common means of decency and health is as much the right of the poorest of the poor, as it is indispensable to the safety of the rich, and of the State ; that a few petty boards and bodies — less than drops in the great ocean of humanity, which roars around them — are not for ever to let loose Fever and Consumption on God's creatures at their will, or always...
Page 14 - ... bad sewerage, a bad supply of water, a bad supply of scavengers, and a consequent accumulation of filth; and I have observed this to be so uniformly and generally the case, that I have been accustomed to express the fact in this way : — If you trace down the fever districts on a map, and then compare that map with the map of the commissioners of sewers, you will find that wherever the commissioners of sewers have not been, there fever is prevalent ; and, on the contrary, wherever they have...
Page 7 - A clean, fresh, and well-ordered house exercises over its inmates a moral, no less than a physical influence, and has a direct tendency to make the members of the family sober, peaceable, and considerate of the feelings and happiness of each other...
Page 40 - to do what he will with his own," without being questioned by his subjects.
Page 4 - The annual slaughter in England and Wales from preventible causes of typhus which attacks persons in the vigour of life, appears to be double the amount of what was suffered by the Allied Armies in the battle of Waterloo.
Page 7 - ... between habitual feelings of this sort and the formation of habits of respect for property, for the laws in general, and even for those higher duties and obligations the observance of which no laws can enforce.
Page 19 - This might be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?
Page 7 - ... tends directly to make every dweller in such a hovel regardless of the feelings and happiness of each other, selfish, and sensual; and the connection is obvious between the constant indulgence of appetites and passions of this class, and the formation of habits of idleness, dishonesty, debauchery, and violence — in a word, the training to every kind and degree of brutality and ruffianism.