Report to the superintendents and visitors of sections in the recent Sanitary Visitation Movement, with suggestions as to a permanent scheme : also, proceedings of public meeting, and appendix of relative documents / submitted by Dr. Gairdner.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Report to the superintendents and visitors of sections in the recent Sanitary Visitation Movement, with suggestions as to a permanent scheme : also, proceedings of public meeting, and appendix of relative documents / submitted by Dr. Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    men. They_ have been nobly responded to; and for this great lesson of religious duty, so well and heartily performed, we may well thank God, while acknowledging His mercy in sparing us from death. The object of these few remarks will be attained if they express in any degree the serious conviction of the writer, that the noble work of the sanitary visitors has been, and still is, proceeding with the best results, which will appear in due season. It would be out of place on the present occasion to enter into details, or to express the obligations of the authorities to the promoters of this truly Christian undertaking, further than to express a hope that it may not be allowed to fall to the ground with the apparent cessa- tion of cholera, but may be remoulded in a more permanent form. —I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, W. T. GAIRDNER. Number of Deaths from Diarrheal Diseases andfrom Cholera in each 10,000 of Population (1861) in each of the folloiving Towns, during the Four Months, August to Novejnber, 1866 :— Diarrhoeal Diseases. Cholera. Glasgow, . . . . . 5 5 . . 1 -o Edinburgh, 11-8 . . 7-5 Dundee, . . . . . 12'2 . . 62 Aberdeen, ...... io-2 . . 7*2 Paisley, 5-9 . . 0% Greenock, . . . . . . 6'3 . . 2*5 Leith, . 30*0 . . 24'4 Perth, 9-2 .. 5-4 Eight Towns, . . . . 9 6 . 4 9 APPENDIX No. III. [The following Reports—one of an entire Section in the best part of the city, the other of a Sub-Section in the very worst—have reached me since the meeting on the 19th; and I gladly insert here the more important portions of each, so as to show at once to the authorities and the public the nature and value of the work done by the visitors.—W. T. G.] Sanitary Visitation.—Report of Section No. II. At a meeting of the Committee of this Section, held in the Sanitary Department of the Police, 31st December, 1866, it was remitted to a Sub-Committee of laymen, to be appointed by the Rev. Messrs. Charteris and Oldham, to frame a general Report