Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge.

  • Legge, Sir Thomas Morison, 1863-1932.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    system. Some of these form regular little colonies, as the Classen dwellings, with their church, day home for 120 children, steam laundry, etc. Other dwellings that I visited, built by the Medical Association, consisted of picturesque rows of cottages, each containing three rooms and a small kitchen, for which a rent of about 4^. a week was paid. One can walk through street after street of artisans’ cot- tages that have been built by a society entirely controlled and managed by working-men. An interesting feature about them is, that the cottage can become the absolute property (subject to certain reservations) of the member of the association who is lucky enough to make a successful draw in the lottery that occasionally takes place for them. More than a thousand houses have been built by this society. Meat The point that is, perhaps, most interesting in inspection. tpe sanitary administration of Copenhagen is the meat inspection, and certainly it is one about which we have almost everything yet to learn in this country. Meat inspection cannot be properly carried out except where there is a general abattoir, and only in the best manner possible when the abattoir is associated with the cattle market. These two, abattoir and cattle market, ad- join one another in Copenhagen. Slaughter of animals can take place nowhere else in the city, and here, too, it must be examined by specially trained veterinary surgeons. Carcases of animals, especially of pigs already slaughtered, may be brought from the country, but before they can come on the open market they must receive the official stamp of the inspector. The abattoir is situated close to the rail- way and harbour, and covers an area of five acres. Though opened in 1883, five years were allowed to elapse before the control was introduced. The market is partly covered and partly in the open. The ground everywhere is paved with granite blocks set in cement. The rooms in which the