Vital statistics : a memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr / edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Noel A. Humphreys.

  • Farr, William, 1807-1883.
Date:
1885
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    it might be separately occupied or owned, or might even have attached to it tlie privilegea oi' voting. On the continent, each hotel, however numerous may be its occupiers or tenants, is reckoned as one house ; and the English practice was formally sanctioned, after discussion, by the official delegates ot the various Governments ol' the world at the London session oi the inter- national Statistical Congress.* , • , „ , n Scotland is the only country of Europe in whicli the defanition ot house has hitherto ottered insuperable difficulties. In that country the population of 3,062,294 souls has. sufficient space,--19,639,377 acres—giving six acres and more to each inhabitant; while houses m the open country enjoy the perfect security which Is sought withiu the walled cities of the continent; yet Scottish families, instead ot living on the earth in pure air, witli the sky over their dwelhngs, in many instances prefer lyhig stratum over stratum in flats, opening into a common staircase,- a continuation of the street, as it has been (.ailed —which receives the organic emanations of the families o «ich floor ' In several of the towns they, at the various Censuses up to 1851, conferred the names of houses on tliese flats or Jloors as they ^vould be called in England, Stages as they would be called in Franccf And the Scottish Commissioners, who possessed many local advantages, do not appear to have been m^re successful in 1861 than we were in 18ol, in 'e ting the actual number of houses in Scotland J This must be borne fn mhid in comparing the houses of Scotland with those of England and of other countries. * M Legoyt, iu his report of the proceedings in Committee observes La iv . i.egoyi, 'u .,,,^^,.,1 cur la definition du mot ' maisou,' ct sur lus fails section -^^t tombce d .^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^.^ .^^.^ Sot Li^^'SSu cette\6signation aux divers etages dout pent se retuso oidiuu ^ j ,,ffectce h I'habitation, lors memes que ccs ctages :e°Tr;ccu;e:;jr^^^^^^^ - ~f thnsonts^be^' quSed ia support of the notion, held by some persons in t Johnson i '^^e^n ^ ^ j.^^^ ^^^^^.^ ^ li.^es; a place ot man abod » S) any place of aboie, &c. &e. Now it does .ot follow that, leSntt ia^placeUerein a m^ live. -^i^^^^Sdle;- li.es is^ a house ; f^- ^ ^Zo.. must not build not a house. I°^^*^^^,'^^^Xsp^al^^ characterizes the house by its caves : ;U mS S^X\is''^^nT^^^^ .?nder another man's flat. Again there is the other q-^oted P^^^^^;-^ the doves with noisome stench. « Are from their hives and houses driven away. a 1 r,f nhriflp but it is not a house in the Census sense ; Here a dovecote is a P^^^^f Johnson defines « flat ; and he and there.is a ^1^-^-^^^^^^^^^ that aflat is a house; ro^ThTaS^y is e^^^^^^^^^ the extension of the name of the part to the name of the whole of a ^^'l-i'^^- . dispelled by the following quotation If any doubt remams oi^.^^^^^^ . , f from Boswell, ^vho so t. itntu j ^^^^^^^^^ ^ ,^,1.,,,^, Tour m tne Hebrides. Attci citrn^ ^ ^ j,^^ the streets of Edinburgh at xug4 he adds • ihc pu ^ y^^^ the streets of Edmbuvgn at iBW - ^-^V ^gaiust throwing foul water which the magistrates have taken . ° f ^J^^ i„ the old Town, which . li-omthc windows; but from the t^ ^^^^^ .^^^^ consist of ^^l^y.\';^^;Xe odour still continues. A zealous Scotsman wouhl « being uo covered sewers, ^i*^ '^^ j ^iis live senses upon this occasion.