Report on the sanitary improvement of the city of Glasgow.

  • Wilson, Charles, 1804-1883.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report on the sanitary improvement of the city of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Transactions of the Architectural Institute of Scotland. Second Session, 1851-52. No. III. REPORT BY ARCHITECTS OF GLASGOW, FELLOWS OF THE ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND, ON THE SANITARY IMPROVEMENT OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW^ [ Read at the Meeting of the Institute in Glasgow, the 11th December 1851.] In terms of the communication conveyed to us through Arthur Forbes, Esquire, one of the town-clerks of this city, of date the 5th November last, in reference to the erection of certain buildings intended for the occupation of tenants of the humbler classes, and which were likely to become, ere long, most injurious to the public health, the foci of disease and poverty, and, on the occurrence of an epidemic, the certain means of propagating fever in the neighbourhood, and to the best course to be adopted with the view of preventing the erection of such buildings throughout the city, and of promoting its sanitary improvement,—we have made per- sonal inspection of many portions of the city, have consi- dered its various features, in reference to the principal points VOL. II. E