A short review of the public health administration in Glasgow : a lecture.

  • McLean, Hugh Archibald.
Date:
1911
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    ground displaces so much air or removes the inmates so much further from the outer air, which purities the atmosphere which they breathe, and the nearer tl\e houses are to each other the less opportunity for nature to cleanse itself. In the very early history of our city this form of overcrowding must have been practically absent. This, for instance, typical of bye-gone Glasgow, illustrates what I say (Fig. 8). In this you might have dirty inhabitants or overcrowded rooms, but still you have free access to every wind that blew—no overlooking tenements to shut out the fi’esh air and sunlight, those invaluable disinfectants of dame nature. Block kindly ie»if by] [David Murray, Egq., LL.D. FI8. 3. Cottai^es at the “ Sell of the Brae. The second form, or overcrowding of the tenement with rooms, naturally arises when the demand of housing accom- modation becomes acute. Instead of continuing to build along the surface of the ground, they started to build upwards, and gave us tho.se dreadful monstrosities, the high tenements; and, of cour.se, the higher the abomination, the greater the opportunity for the third form of overcrowding the over- crowding of the rooms with people—the worst form ^ of overcrowding, and has no necessary relation to the situation or structure of the house.