Health in the village.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1884
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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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    these tribes, and so often neglected now in the villages of England. In contrast with these frail tenements, existing under DRY climatic conditions, one of great heat and the other of intense cold, you may compare far more substantial hovels in climates where dampness, uncontrolled, is the cause too surely of enfeebled physical power and loss of life. Nothing can be more striking than the difference between the health-aspect of these children of the desert and of the hunting-ground, and that of some of the dwellers in less favoured districts, such as the saturated islands of the Western Hebrides or the Atlantic coasts of Ireland. 0.—TUT! VILLAGE OF ST. K1LDA, 1834. The above sketch shows the low huts constituting the village of St. Kilda, drawn by me in 1834—filled with smoke, the ground saturated with offal, the entrails of sea-birds, the resting-place of their cattle and themselves alike. The second is an example of one of the brighter cabins of the Celtic inhabitants—drawn two years since by Mr. Muirhead and myself in the west of Donegal. The two first of the four sketches are suggestive of activity, freedom, and the winds of Heaven ; the two last of damp, dis- comfort, and dirt. The Arts have advanced indeed in the cabins of Erin. The weaver and the weaver’s loom ; the distaff and the spinning-wheel; the mother and the infant in arms, the bright-haired beautiful girl ; the wizened grandmother ; the