Health in the village.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health in the village. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ( «5 ) NOTE ON REGISTERS OF COTTAGES. After the Horwood Fever, to which allusion has been made in the text, it seemed to me that the first step to a complete reform of the condition of Cottages, of Villages, and of Artizans’ dwellings in urban and suburban districts all over the kingdom, would be to obtain a Register of their condition. With such a Register on his table, every Surveyor, Landowner, Clergyman, or Medical Officer would have the facts of the case before him. The Form which here follows has been in use in some districts for many years, having been first issued in 1S61. Extended knowledge has made me more than ever desire to see the use of such Forms universal. Each leaf represents one Cottage. Every Cottage should have the door numbered to tally with the Register. Any intelligent person can fill up the Forms. A village carpenter can fill in the record of a village in a day or two. Every Vestry, Local Board, or Health Authority would find it very convenient to keep such Registers in its office. The various Public Health Acts, imposing, as they do, the detailed charge of the Public Health on the Local Authorities, make it more than ever desirable that all Local Officers of Health should possess such records for reference of the state of the Cottages, Hamlets, and Villages within their districts. There is no doubt they do now possess such accounts more or less systematically over the whole country, either themselves or by means of their Sanitary Inspectors. It is not therefore so much for Authorities that I venture to take this opportunity of recommending these or some such Registers, but for owners of Cottage Property.