The evolution of the function of public health administration : as illustrated by the sanitary history of Glasgow in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1854, with an exposition of results / by James B. Russell.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
1895
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    District XL—Dr. Brown. [Between New Vennel and Duke Street, High Street and the Molindinar. Population, 5300. Attended 1700 cases in twelve months ! Chiefly inhabited by thieves and prostitutes. Only a sentence here and there can be quoted.] 64 Havannah Street is not surpassed by any close in the city for filth, misery, crime, and disease; it contains 59 houses, all inhabited by a most wretched class of individuals; several of these houses do not exceed 5 feet square, yet they are forced to contain a family of sometimes six persons. ... 105 Havannah Street was an old Carpet Factory lately arranged into 36 cells about 7 feet square, . . . comfort, convenience, and ventilation kept out of sight; there is scarcely a bed in the whole land but what was supplied by me from the Town's Hospital. As might be supposed, fever raged dreadfully here; ... the whole furniture is not worth a week's rent; the cellars behind are converted into houses of the worst description. . . . The whole of the Burnside, especially the ground floors, are not fit places for pigs; height of ceiling 6 feet, and at almost every flood in the Clyde they are inundated by the Molindinar Burn; every inhabitant of these dens has had fever; it literally swarms with prostitutes of the lowest class. District XII.—Dr. Fisher, [Between Candleriggs and High Street-, north of Trongate.] This space forms part of a district of this great city, which, in the opinion of one capable of judging of the subject, contains a greater amount of human degredation, both moral and physical, than is to be found in any corresponding space of the Kingdom of Great Britain. I do not think him wrong, for I cannot conceive of human beings more sunk in vice, or labouring under a heavier load of misery than are the wretched inhabitants of the part to which I refer. . . . No. 75 High Street, a very dirty close, abounding in low Irish Lodging-houses. The floors of the houses in the ground flats are damp and dirty, in fact little better than cellars. The upper pai-t of the close is very filthy. The lower flat of one of the houses here was lately appropriated to the breeding of swine, while several families occupied the flats above. The part of the close at the side of the house is used as a dunghill, which renders access to it by no means either pleasant or easy. I believe every inhabitant of this tenement has had fever. Upwards of 120 cases occurred in the close. No. 83, a very filthy close. . . . No. 93, or Pipehouse close, is the filthiest in the district. . . . No. 13 Bell Street, a dirty close, with a dunghill at the head of it. . . . No. 23, a long dirty close. In one house at the top of it several severe