The growth of cities in relation to town planning / by A.K. Chalmers.

  • Chalmers, A. K. (Archibald Kerr), 1856-1942.
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: The growth of cities in relation to town planning / by A.K. Chalmers. 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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    ■*■■«* *^ r THE GROWTH OF,CITIES IN RELATION TO TOWN PLANNING. By a. K. CHATAIERS, M.D., Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. IN inviting yoitr attention to this subject, I do not propose to enter into any detailed criticism of the proposals now before Parlia- ment in the Housing and Town Planning Bill of the President of the Ijocal Government Board for England. For this there is an obvions reason in the shortness of time available for discussion. But an equally, if not more cogent one, is that individual views of the present proposals will largel.y be influenced by individual ex- perience of the defects of existing pro^dsions ; and should we thus limit the area of discus- sion, we shall miss many things which are of importance. For much that has been done in the past towards housing reform has l)een accomplished outside the ])resent Acts alto- gether, either by special legislation in the form of local improvement Acts and by philan- thropy, as well as by industrial expansion, which, in the form of railwa.y cleamnees and by absorption for business purposes, has displaced no inconsiderable proportion of tlie populations formerly living in insanitary areas.