The evolution of the function of public health administration : as illustrated by the sanitary history of Glasgow in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1854, with an exposition of results / by James B. Russell.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
1895
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Credit: The evolution of the function of public health administration : as illustrated by the sanitary history of Glasgow in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1854, with an exposition of results / by James B. Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into the hands of the Medical Officer information for which his staff had laboriously to seek. The Police (Amendment) Act of 1890 adds to the stringency of the powers for dealing with infectious disease, and in respect of drains, conveniences, overcrowding, lodging-houses, disease in dairy cattle, and uninhabitable houses, &c., &c., gives Glasgow, on the whole, the benefit of the advances in sanitary Jaw following up the advance of sanitary knowledge, from which Scotland in general is shut out by the neglect of her interests in Parliament. The systematic removal of refuse, and the daily disposal of the daily collection have been further developed, and the great and necessary task of purifying the Clyde begun by the opening of the Dalmarnock Sewage Purifica- tion Work in 1894. In this period systematic efforts were for the first time made to provide Children's Playgrounds. The city has always been supplied with suburban parks. The historic Glasgow Green was purchased at various times in the 17th and 18th centuries. It remained the sole park until 1854, when the West-end Park was obtained, and several new parks and large additions to old ones have since been acquired from time to time. Still no provision had been made near to tenement houses, for the use of children, of smaller spaces such as may be found near all our large self-contained houses in the shape of jpro indiviso gardens or pleasure-grounds. George Square, St. Enoch Square, St. Andrew's Square are examples of spaces left near the houses of the wealthy of former generations which remain for the use of the many. The City Improvement Trust left spaces in feuing Overnewton and Oatlands for tenements, and in the course of laying out afresh areas which had been cleared reserved useful vacant plots of which Cathedral Square and Bain Square are examples. The negotiations preliminary to the extension of the city in 1891 led to several of these more modest play-places being bargained for as a condition of consent. Still there was no effort here to redress the wrongs of the past. These