Sanitary engineering : a guide to the construction of works of sewerage and house drainage, with tables for facilitating the calculations of the engineer / by Baldwin Latham.

Date:
1873
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Credit: Sanitary engineering : a guide to the construction of works of sewerage and house drainage, with tables for facilitating the calculations of the engineer / by Baldwin Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    favourable conditions, become the prolific centre of in- fection. So easily are the seeds of disease spread, that it becomes only a matter of common prudence to strive to maintain the body in health, by removmg those causes which tend to lower vital energy, and to dispose of, in an expeditions and safe way, all those matters given off by the human body, whether m health or disease, for we know ^ '^'^^ Effeetsofi.pu.e its own punishment. If the air of heaven is vitiated, ^^^^ ^J^^ the water rendered impure, or our food improper or insufficient, the body is robbed of life-giving elements, and soon succumbs to disease and death. It is the true aim and object of the Sanitary Engineer to assist o^^^^^,^^^;- Nature in her great but simple operations, to facilitate the purification of the air, to remove dangerous im- purities from water, to supply abundance of these life-o-ivina elements, to remove, as speedily as possible, before decomposition commences, all those matters eliminated from the animal system, together with all other decomposing refuse. , . ., Wherever masses of human beings congregate, whe- Aru^^^ ther in towns or villages, or in armies in the held, towns, camp, or barrack, an artificial existence, to a certain extent, springs up. Each individual is no longer dependent upon himself; the habits of those around him influence his own position. The preservation of ^^;;[ the health of every class in a community is equally t„ all important to the rich and poor. It is important to the Masses, wealthy that the poor should be kept in health, for the influence of infection, once introduced into the dwellings of the poor, often spreads far and wide, and is no respecter of persons. It is important to the poor man, as his health is his wealth. Sanitary laws and regulations are intended to give power to communities which single individuals cannot ^^^^^^^^l,^ possess, viz. the power to promote general measures cal- culated to secure or improve the state of public health. ^ . ^ In this country it so happens that the sanitary laws, to p^^Sve!''''