The catechism of health; or plain and simple rules for the preservation of health and the attainment of a long life. To which are added facts respecting the nature, treatment, and prevention of cholera / By A.B. Granville.

  • Augustus Granville
Date:
1831
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Credit: The catechism of health; or plain and simple rules for the preservation of health and the attainment of a long life. To which are added facts respecting the nature, treatment, and prevention of cholera / By A.B. Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    must refer you to their respective circulars for information. You will, however, permit me to observe, that while I cannot but approve, in common with my brethren, those regula- tions which relate to cleanliness, ventilation, surveillance and relief to the poor, and the establishment of several Boards, with in- structions to watch over and report, statisti- cally, the progress of the epidemic; I most unequivocally dissent from some of their in- distinct and contradictory notions. The ex- iled approbation of the profession, and could only have been framed under the supposition that we had to contend with a contagious disorder. Now that that absurd notion has been publicly abandoned by the magistrates of healtli in their recent recantation, I suppose the objec- tionable regulations will also be abandoned. I allude to the injunction given to the inhabitants and dwellers in small tenements, to wash their floors everv day, and to the plan of converting every street by night into gurgling streams, by inundating them witli water from the New Kiver and the river Lea. Nothing could be proposed more imjjolitic or insalubrious. Dam)mess, whicli is the very nest of cholera, would thus, with tho heat of fires in close rooms, and the natural process of evaporation in the streets, keep up at home and abroad, a state of atmosphere the verv reverse of that which it is tlie intention of the Board of Health to secure to the juiblic—a heallhv one. I.et the streets be well swe]it everv dav or every other day, and the floors of close and small rooms kept drv, and holy-stoned, like the decks of a man-of-war, and thus kept clean without moisture.