London vestries and their sanitary work : are they willing and able to do it? : and may they be trusted in the face of a severe epidemic? : being a speech delivered August 8th, 1865, at a meeting of the Vestry of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark / by W. Rendle.

  • Rendle, William, 1811-1893.
Date:
1865
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Credit: London vestries and their sanitary work : are they willing and able to do it? : and may they be trusted in the face of a severe epidemic? : being a speech delivered August 8th, 1865, at a meeting of the Vestry of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark / by W. Rendle. 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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    a class of men rising up, of which I am one of the humblest, who will trv to interfuse their religion in their daily life, not on the day set apart only; who will agitate this question even in the very homes of the lowest. If this contentment exists, it is degrading, immoral, unchristian, and full of disease of all sorts; and it ought no longer to exist. He concluded by moving “ That a deputation of three, with the Yestry-Clerk, be appointed to wait upon the President of the Poor Law Board, and to bring before him the question of a complete efficient action between Boards of Guardians and their officers, and Sanitary Boards, Yestries, and the like bodies, and their Sanitary Officers; upon the following basis—that as almost all epidemic disease, and disease arising from local and more or less preventible causes, usually begin and spread first among the poor, and are consequently first observed by the medical and relieving officers of the Guardians, it is of the utmost importance that the earliest information of such cases should be given by the one to the other, and that the same should, if possible, in any future amend- ment of the Poor Law, be made obligatory; and that the Chairman and Clerk of the Board of Guardians be respectfully invited to join the deputation.” And he further intimated that it was his intention to bring before the Yestry other questions in connection with the objects he had advocated. LONDON : PRINTED BY J. E. ADLARD, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.