The relation of modern engineering to public health and local government : read at Oxford, before a meeting of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors, Feb. 18, 1876 / by Dr. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1876
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Credit: The relation of modern engineering to public health and local government : read at Oxford, before a meeting of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors, Feb. 18, 1876 / by Dr. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to time investigated under the best guidance, but persons would be trained to be thoroughly qualified in all medico legal ques- tions. Hereby some of the scandal of ex-parte scientific witnesses might be checked or removed. Such laboratories should be aided or maintained as well in the metropolis as in some of the great towns where scientific institutions and medical schools exist, e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol. These centres are conveniently situated for various sections of the kingdom .... ****** Doubt has sometimes been expressed whether the ordinary medical practitioner is sufficiently instructed in preventive medi- cine. Such doubt would soon prove unfounded, if the organisa- tion we propose were adopted. The medical officers under the Poor-Law are perfectly able to fill up returns, make reports when called upon, point out cause of ill-health, and superintend such remedies as the central authority may suggest or direct. No ordinary medical officers should be expected to discharge the duties of the police, the lawyer; or the engineer ****** II. Memorial concer^iingthe Regulation and Purification of the Thames Waters. 1. Whereas the Area of the Thames and its Tributaries may be computed to contain 6,000 square miles, and extends over parts of the several Counties of Essex, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Hants, Berks, Wilts, Oxon, Bucks, Herts, Warwick, Northamp- ton, and Bedford, 2. ?'F//^r^'«j it is highly expedient to regulate the waters brought down by the River Thames, so that they shall be as fit for use and as little contaminated as may be, both in the district imme- diately above London and in the neighbourhood of all towns on its banks, 3. Whereas no systematic provision has as yet been made either for regulating the several branches of the waters in the Thames Basin on a common plan, or for deterring the Towns on the several parts of it from casting their sewage into the streams ; and 7vhereas many Towns situated above the Metropolis, viz., Richmond, Staines, Windsor, Maidenhead, Henley, Reading, and Oxford do so cast in the whole or parts of their sewage,