[Report 1890] / Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
- Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
- Date:
- 1890
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Credit: [Report 1890] / Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Let anyone, accustomed to a better condition of life, put his head into one of them and he will be met by a mephitic atmosphere the like of which is not to be found in the domicile of any other animal. Stables and shippons, and even pig-styes have their peculiar smells, but they are not poisonous or repulsive, or offensive as these. No animal could live in them and flourish. To describe their nauseous character I have sometimes said in a bantering spirit: put a pig into one of them, and feed him on the best for a twelvemonth and he will come out a lean pig. And yet industrious men and women and little children live in these, and their weak frames and pallid faces tell of the surroundings. That owing to the continued high rate of mortality and the failure of the Association hitherto to induce the Corporation to deal with these unhealthy dwellings on a sufficiently extensive scale, the Association in 1888 and 1889 organised a series of conferences in the City, and one of these, held in New Islington Hall, Ancoats, resulted in a deputation to the Mayor, mainly composed of the working class resident of the district, to present a memorial urging immediate action in the provision of improved artizans’ dwellings. That in furtherance of this great need a medical member of the Committee (Dr. Thresh), on behalf of the Association, undertook a scientific enquiry into the causes of the excessive mortality in No. 1 district, Ancoats, and presented his report early in 1889. It dealt with every matter that could be supposed to affect the death rate, and in order to arrive at the true death rate, Dr. Thresh abstracted from the books of several hospitals the deaths there of persons who had resided in No. 1 district, Ancoats, and he was thereby able to show that the rate of mortality had varied greatly up to 91‘6 per 1,000. Your Memorialists claim, from their long experience, to speak with some authority on this subject, and feel confident that you will attach due weight to their disinterested support of the proposals the Corporation now make. Signed on behalf of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association. Arthur Ransome, M.D., M.A., F.R.S., Chairman of Committee. A. Emrys-Jones, M.D., M.R.C.S.,1 tt 0 „ ’ IHon. Secs. T. C. Abbott, J Fred Scott, Secretary. 44, John Dalton Street, Manchester, February 18th, 1890. B.—MILK SUPPLY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE. [Copy of letter to Mr. Lees Knowles, M.P.] Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association, 44, John Dalton Street, Manchester, April 12th, 1890. Sir,—I enclose copy of a Memorial which was ready for dispatch on the day that your speech in the House on tuberculosis was reported in the newspapers, and which was withheld by me in consequence as being presumably useless.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30085342_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
