[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town].

  • Hamlet of Mile End Old Town (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1876
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    53 susceptible to illness. Much of this is no doubt due to the care of the school officials, to the superior sanitary condition of the school buildings, compared with the unhealthy homes of the children, together with greater regard to cleanliness and proper clothing, rendered necessary by school attendance. By degrees the direct effect of education itself will prove the strongest and surest ally and aid to sanitary progress and public health; then sanitation and hygiene will be compre hended and courted, instead of as now too frequently doubted and resented. The material deductions, and those most interesting to you as the local sanitary authority, derivable from experience in sanitary work, are that well made and well cleansed roads, good drainage, wholesome water, and the means for so preserving it, dwellings in good repair, with necessary sanitary requirements, are essential to, and practically synonimous with, a high standard of public health, good tenants, secure rents, few paupers, and low rates, I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, MATTHEW CORNER. Vestry Hall, Sept. 1876.
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