On the advantages to be derived from the adoption of the Local Government Act, as exemplified in Croydon / by Edward Westall.

  • Westall, Edward.
Date:
1865
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Credit: On the advantages to be derived from the adoption of the Local Government Act, as exemplified in Croydon / by Edward Westall. 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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    PREFACE. The following is the substance of a paper read at the Crystal Palace, on the 22nd June, 1865. At the request of many friends of sanitary improvement in Croydon, and more in distant parts of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, I have been induced to republish the paper in detail, a large portion having already appeared in the Journal of the British Medical Association. It would have been much more full had I given but a tithe of the material at my command, but I have endeavoured to make my remarks as general, and to curtail its length, as far as possible, being especially careful to avoid all person - alities : the motive—the public weal—must be my only excuse. Several references having been made to the Bourne Water as one of the peculiarities of the Croydon district, I have appended a short paper on that subject by C. W. Johnson, Esq., F.R.S., and one on the geology of Croydon, by J. W. Flower, Esq.; and I believe they will be found interesting as bearing upon sanitary progress in Croydon. Since writing the above, I find that the Medical Depart- ment of the Privy Council has commenced an enquiry into the working of the Local Government Act, in order to ascertain the results of its application to towns generally, and doubtless a Report will be published hereafter. a 2