Health : an address delivered at the Social Science Congress at Plymouth / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health : an address delivered at the Social Science Congress at Plymouth / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    we have a central authority, which has obtained the power of employing and paying any num- ber of experts that are required for whatever purpose, and which the Treasury will sanction, I have carefully refrained from asking questions of, or having any communication with, mem- bers of the Government, so that I must not be thought in any sense to speak with authority on this subject; but as I understand the Legisla- ture and these Acts, I entertain not the slightest doubt that the Acts have conferred on our cen- tral authority the further power of making, with the consent of the localities, such combined dis- tricts as practice, experience, wise energy, and the good intentions of the people see in their several neighbourhoods to be desirable. But it is manifest to all who reflect on the subject that the alteration of boundaries and areas is a diffi- cult thing : that it involves various kinds of local interests affecting property, party, and senti- ment ; such as county, union, parish, and fran- chise questions, together with personal relations of all the officers severally engaged in these re- spective divisions; so that a great amount of labour must necessarily be undergone to settle the hundreds, or, more probably, the thousands of questions which will demand the personal at- tention and judgment of the Local Government