[The dwelling-house in relation to health : a lecture] / by Henry Simpson.

  • Henry Simpson
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: [The dwelling-house in relation to health : a lecture] / by Henry Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    RELATION TO HEALTH. A LECTURE By Henry Simpson, M.D., Physkian to the Manchester Royal Infirmary ; Consulting Physician to the Mafichester Sout/iern Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children. Last year it was my privilege to deliver one of the course of lectures given annually with the sanction of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association. My subject was The Health of the Household, and it should have included a great deal of what we shall consider this evening. Time, however, prevented me from even touching on the important question of the dwelling- house, and I propose now to show, as briefly and simply as possible, some of the modes in which the dwelling affects the heakh. In all ages, and in every part of the world, man, whether civilized or savage, has had some kind of dwelling, temporary or permanent. It has varied, and still varies, from something little better than a fox's earth, or natural cavern, through endless gradations of form, and complexity of arrangement, till we arrive at buildings like our New Town Hall or a regal palace. A well-known author on popular natural history has written a pleasant book entided, Homes without Hands, showing the ingenuity with which even the lower animals provide themselves with shelter; and we all know that few expressions tell so strongly of utter desolation and misery as that anyone is a homeless, houseless wanderer. Two thousand years will soon have rolled by since it was said by One, in illustration of His humble position, that the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but He had not where to lay His head. It would be interesting if we had a similar popular sketch of the various contrivances by which man in the eariiest, and indeed in the most recent times, has, like the foxes and the birds, protected himself from the wintry storm and the summer heat We should have a succession of pictures
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