An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life.

  • William Falconer
Date:
[1789?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    4 fprings that rife to, or near to, the furface of the earth.. Care aJfo fhould be taken to place the re- pofitories for dung and other manure at fome dis- tance from,the houfe, and this caution Ihould be alfo extended to the hog-ftyes and poultry-yards.] The necefiary attention to the feeding thefe ani- mals does not allow the dittance to be confiderabie but ftill does not require their being fo near as m generally fee them placed. It is needlefs to expa-ij tiate on fuch a fubjeft, or to attempt to prove thai air impregnated with fuch filthy exhalations mu(;l be injurious to health. Even good plans for farm-houfes of differeri fizes, according to the number of inhabitantjj would contribute in no fmall degree to genenl welfare. The bed-chambers in farm-houfes are il general too low and confined, and the whole builc| ing too fmall; this occafions too many people j c be crouded together, a circumftance always vel: unfavourable to health, and the moll comm(|(, fource of contagious diforders. Good water is altii a circumftance of great moment. If this can far had from any Spring that rifes to the furface of earth, it is commonly preferable to fuch as is dra'tj from a confiderabie depth; but fuch a choice! not always in our power. If pond-water be uil through neceffity, it fhould be previoufiy put in citterns or refervoirs, covered at the top, and th fuffe: