Volume 1

First report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence.

  • Great Britain. Metropolitan Sanitary Commission.
Date:
1848
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Credit: First report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    CONTENTS. REPORT, Page Grounds for apprehending the revisitation of the cholera ] Enquiry as to the measures adopted when the Asiatic cholera last visited this country 2 State of medical relief on the last visitation of the Asiatic cholera ... 4 General similarity of the circumstances under which attacks of cholera were made 6 Generally in low', damp, ill-drained, filthy, confined, and unventilated places 8 No evidence that chtolera spreads by the communication of the infected with the healthy 10 Breaks through all quarantine regulations, and spreads simultaneously over extensive districts . . . . . . . . .'. . .'. . . . 12 The vessels where cholera cases first appeared, not from infected places . . 14 Cholera observes the laws of ordinary epidemics, and attacks similar persons, as well as similar places .16 Identity of the cholera track with the track of typhus and other epidemics . 18 Coincidence of a low sanitary and physical condition with an excessive mor- tality from cholera « 20 Where the deaths from fever the most numerous, there the attackis of cholera the most frequent ..22 Statistical returns of cases of cholera and fever within the same districts . . 24 Statistical returns shewing the coincidence of the attacks of cholera and fever in the same districts. ,...«.. 26 Danger arising from the immediate removal of cholera cases 28 Cholera hospitals only to be resorted to for extreme cases 30 Advantages of non-removal 32 Improved arrangements to meet extreme cases 33 Measures of alleviation of little avail, preventive measures only to be relied upon . . , 34 Inefficiency of the former measures for cleansing, and the removal of decom- posing refuse 36 Enquiry into the present sanitary condition of the metropolis, from the points at which left by previous enquiries .......... . . 38 Principles of town drainage 40 Want of adaptation of former works .41 Deposit in sewers and drains ; their defective construction ...... 42 Defective materials and construction of house drains 44 Rates of discharge through differently constructed drains 45 Excessive expense of house drains, and their defective construction . . . 4G The sewers often ventilated by the house-drains ; examples of 48 Excessive expense of the drainage of courts and alleys, and its ill-working . . 50 Defects in principle of the existing modes of house-drainage and sewerage . 52 Demonstrations of the excessive sizes of sewers, as compared with the water discharged . 54 Effects of regulated supplies of water in reducing the siaes of sewers ... 56