Military hygiene / by Robert Caldwell.

  • Caldwell, Robert, 1859-1919.
Date:
1910
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Military hygiene / by Robert Caldwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1. Overcrowding. 2. Buildings and open spaces. 3. Smoke pollution. 4. Register of owners of houses. 5. Law as to insanitary and overcrowded house property. 6. Medical inspection of factories. 7. Workshops. 8. Alcoholism. 9. Food and cookery. 10. Cooking grates. 11. Adulteration. 12. Milk-supply. 13. Feeding of infants. 14. Milk depots. The preceding are only a few headings out of a long list, and although it would lead too far from present purposes to attempt a seriatim discussion of the above, it is plain that attention is principally directed to the question of food and air, while the influence of drink on health is not omitted. The committee are also of opinion that the habits of the people themselves are largely accountable for conditions directly detrimental to health. Sir L. H. Ormsby, in giving evidence, stated as follows: ‘ In the lower strata of society in large towns I consider their surroundings and domestic life are in a very depressing condition ; there is a total neglect of every hygienic and sanitary rule of life, and these conditions, I say, are perhaps made up of the insanitary dwellings, the insufficient and improper food and insufficient clothing, and breathing and re-breathing the same polluted and contaminated air; and then they have no means of recreation and athletic games to throw off these effects.’* In the September issue for 1904 of Public Health there is a highly interesting resume of the work of this committee, in which the following statement occurs : ‘ Laziness, want * Report of Inter-Departmental Committee.