Observations on foul water irrigation : founded on a personal survey of different districts of the city, and an examination of their comparative salubrity, being a reply to certain statements made at a meeting of the Town-Council on the 2d April, 1839 / by William Tait.

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1839
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Credit: Observations on foul water irrigation : founded on a personal survey of different districts of the city, and an examination of their comparative salubrity, being a reply to certain statements made at a meeting of the Town-Council on the 2d April, 1839 / by William Tait. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    OBSERVATIONS ON FOUL WATER IRRIGATION, FOUNDED ON A PERSONAL SURVEY OF DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF THE CITY, AND AN EXAMINATION OF THEIR COM- PARATIVE SALUBRITY, BEING A REPLY TO CERTAIN STATEMENTS MADE AT A MEET- ING OF THE TOWN-COUNCIL ON THE 2d APRIL, 1839. BY WILLIAM T A I T, SURGEON, COMMISSIONER OF POLICE. “ Your breath 1 hate “ As reek of the rotten fens.”—S/iakspcare's Coriolanus, “ All the infections that the sun sucks up “ From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him “ By inch-meal a disease 1 ”—Shakspcarc's TcmjJest. EDINBURGH: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. J. MACDONALD, 13. CARRUBBER’S CLOSE, AND SOLD BY CHARLES ZIEGLER, 17, SOUTH BRIDGE, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1839.