[Report 1877] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.
- Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1877] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tlivit the “ Artizans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings 4ct of 1875” enables corporate authorities to deal effectively with this cause of ill-health and mortality. That Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, and some other large towns have availed themselves of the provisions of the Act. That many of the districts of Manchester referred to by the memorialists are such as come Avithin the meaning of the Act. That the following districts of the city are those to which the memorialists more particularly allude, viz. :—Market-street sub-districts, 2, 5, and 6; St. George’s sub-districts, 2 to 5 and 27 to 32 in Dr. Leigh’s map, and that the detailed Report appended to the memorial of a sub-committee Avhich visited the sub-districts 2 to 5 and 27 to 32, describes a sample of the conditions to be met with in all the above-named districts, and will show hoAV flagrantly sanitary’' laws are disregarded in the construction of many of the dwellings of the poor in this city. The memorialists pray the Council to take into consideration the desirability of putting the “Artizans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Act” into operation at an early date, in one or more of the districts enumerated. (Signed) Daniel Noble, M.D. Chalnnan. Aethuk Ransome, M.D., Dejiuty-C/ndniian, James Haedie, M.D., ) ,, ,, ’ , lion. oecs. John Haddon, M.D.,^ Feed. Scott, Secrelaiy. (Dated) 78, Cross-street, Manchester, April 5th, 1876. Detailed Report of Sub-Committee of the Sanitary Association appended.] Report on the Condition of the small Cottaye Dii'eilinys in the District hounded by Oldham Rioad, Addiriyton Street^ Anyel Street, St. MichaeVs Church Yard, the Gas Worhs, and. the Oldham Road Goods Station. (From visits by Mr. F. Scott and Mr. J. Corbett, February 8tb, and by Mr. J. Corbett on February 15th, 1877.) “ Within this area there are about seven hundred back to back or single- fronted cottages, which, from the impossibility of having ventilation through them, are incapable of being made healthy dwellings. There are many other cottages almost as utterly bad as these, also larger houses used as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29785005_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
