The essentials of a healthy dwelling, and the extension of its benefits to the labouring population : with a special reference to the promotion of that object by H.R.H the late Prince Consort / by Henry Roberts.

  • Henry Roberts
Date:
1862
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Credit: The essentials of a healthy dwelling, and the extension of its benefits to the labouring population : with a special reference to the promotion of that object by H.R.H the late Prince Consort / by Henry Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2nd. Measures which ought to be adopted by Landowners and Employers generally, for the benefit of their dependents,.24 ; the late Duke of Bed¬ ford’s opinion and example on this subject, 24; the example of the Duke of Northumberland, 25 ; the question of remunerative return, 25 ; the efforts made by great manufacturers, owners of mines, quarries, railway companies, 25 ; police barracks, 25 ; examples on the Continent, 26. 3rd. Measures undertaken from benevolent motives by Associations and by Individuals. Associations in the metropolis, 27 ; experience gained and pecuniary results in regard to new buildings, and to renovated old houses, 28 ; more satisfactory results of the treatment of old buildings in Chelsea, and some other parts of London, as well as at Hastings, 31 ; new buildings constructed by the Strand Building Association, 32; by the Windsor Royal Society, 32 ; by the Redhill and Reigate Cottage Im¬ provement Society, 32 ; Huddersfield Improvement Commissioners’ Lodging-houses, 32; efforts in Scotland, and the necessity for them, 32 ; Edinburgh, 32; Glasgow, 33; in Ireland, 33; in France, 34; private enterprise more successful than associated efforts stimulated by a govern¬ ment subvention, 34 ; Berlin Society under the patronage of the King and H.R.H. Prince Frederick William, 34; St. Petersburg, 35 ; Frank¬ fort, 35 ; Bremen, 35 ; rate of interest sought from such undertakings on the Continent, 35 ; extension of this movement to Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Bavaria, and other German States, Switzerland, and Italy, 35 ; greatly needed in Genoa and Naples, 36 ; model buildings constructed in New York and Boston, 36. Measures adopted by Individuals, 36; Her Majesty the Queen, 36 ; obstacles to the profitable fulfilment of a desire expressed by George III., 36; efforts made for their removal, encouraged and greatly stimulated by the example of the lamented Prince Consort, 37 ; H.R.H.’s Exhibition model houses, 1851, has led to the construction of separate dwellings for married soldiers, a measure promoted by the late Lord Herbert, 37 ; the leading features of its arrangement have been adopted in numerous places at home and abroad, 38 ; first public exhibition of Sanitary Appliances adapted to the circum¬ stances of the working classes, 39 ; H.R.H. the Prince of Wales’ model dwellings in Lambeth, 39 ; efforts made by Lord Kinnaird, 39 ; Miss Burdett Coutts, 40 ; Mr. John Newson, 40 ; Benefit Building societies, 40 ; necessity for the instruction of the working classes in all which relates to the improvement and keeping of their houses in good order, resolution adopted at the Congrbs International deBienfaisance, 41; import¬ ance of this object urged by individuals in public addresses, 41 ; Lord Pal¬ merston, 41 ; enormous loss of life from preventable causes, 41 ; beneficial results of recent sanitary ameliorations, (note) 41 ; the misery and degradation of vast masses of its population, often urged by foreigners as a reproach to England, 42 ; the benefits of a healthy dwelling can only be extended to the working population through the adoption of a com¬ bination of suitable measures, 42; encouragement to effort from the ameliorations effected in prisons, military barracks, and hospitals, 42 ; application of the motto in conclusion, 42. Wood Engravings illustrative of Dwellings adapted for the labouring population in the country and in to wns.
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