The influence of public cleansing on the mortality of towns / by D. Edgar Flinn.

  • Flinn, David Edgar.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The influence of public cleansing on the mortality of towns / by D. Edgar Flinn. 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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    ftbe Jnfluettce of public Cleansing ON THE flDortalit? of Cowns,* BY D. EDGAR FLINN, D.F.H.* F.R.C.3.I., M.R.C.P. A DISTINGUISHED sanitarian describes the process of public cleansing as “ The immediate removal of all matter liable to pollute earth, air, or water.’* The word im- mediate has a pronounced significance here, for in the immediate removal of town’s refuse and filth lies the essence of the benefits to be derived from public cleansing. No system of town cleansing, be it either public or domestic, can be maintained or efficiently carried out unless it be undertaken solely by the Sanitary Authority; for according as our towns grow, and dwellings increase in number, so much more difficult does it become for individual householders to dispose of their refuse. Again, it is a self-evident fact that the habits of the occupiers of tenement * Read at the meeting of the State Medicine Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland, February roth, 1894.