[Report 1874] / Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.

  • Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
Date:
1874
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    has been introduced, and about 700 closets on this plan have been erected. The expectations of the Association as stated when advocating* the introduction of the cinder sifter system in Manchester, have been fully realised, and it might reasonably be supposed that the Salford Corporation with the evidence afforded in Manchester and Pendleton of its beneficial results, would not hesitate in insisting upon its being adopted throughout the whole borough. Unfortunately however, the influ¬ ence of interested opposition to the system seems sufficiently strong to defeat the efforts of the more independent members of the Council, to keep up with the times in respect to sanitary reform. The desirability of effecting a means of co-opera¬ tion between the Association and the Sanitary Officials of Manchester and the neighbourhood, has from time to time been discussed by the Committee, and with that object in view a Conference of Medical Officers of Health was convened by the Association, which has happily resulted in the formation of the “ North •Western Association of Medical Officers of Health.” This body it is believed will prove an effective agency for the accomplishment of the object which the Committee of this Association desired to promote, namely, united action on the part of the various local authorities in Sanitarv matters. The work of the Association in spreading a know¬ ledge of the laws of health by means of public lectures, has been carried to the extent of the means of the