Fever in agricultural districts : being a report on cases of fever occuring in the parish of Great Horwood, in the county of Buckingham / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Fever in agricultural districts : being a report on cases of fever occuring in the parish of Great Horwood, in the county of Buckingham / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    out of repair : the bed-room looks miserable, and has no ceiling at the collar; but if it were tiled, from the reasons given, would be healthy enough. I have seen in Oxfordshire and Bucks many such houses, and have heard the people say they prefer them to (what they call) the better sort: to be sure they look slovenly, but you see, Sir, we have room to move and fresh air. 20. Again, a positive good is neutralized by one care- lessness. It has been already said that some of the cot- tages have no back door: it is almost impossible that a labourer's dwelling should be healthy when this is the case. This fact alone condemns the construction of the new buildings at Nash-End, and renders them dangerous. But on the other hand, a back door may lead to con- cealed and confined filth, unless there be adequate space behind. Lately, I asked during a sanitary enquiry in a house to which there was a back door, where the privy was placed; the answer was, Mine ain't a privy, it's a tub ! The tub was among other articles of do- mestic use at the back door. The object was to col- lect the manure for the garden. Or compare these two instances: in one charmingly kept cottage, with a capital garden, the whole of one side of the garden is occupied by a privy, its overflow, a general swamp nine inches deep, for the pig to play in, and his stye; and in the tenement next to it, there is a similar arrangement: there has been scarcely any illness in this house. The pig's swamp is open, (i. e. has no roof,) and the bedroom window is not over it. But in another cottage, where the bedrooms are larger, the window is over the roof of a reeking pig muck, and the strong man that slept by the window fell ill and died, and his widow is yet struggling between Kfe and following him. 21. There is no reason for supposing that the aliment