Unhealthiness of towns, its causes and remedies : being a lecture delivered on the 10th of December, 1845, in the Mechanics' Institute at Plymouth / by Viscount Ebrington.
- Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Unhealthiness of towns, its causes and remedies : being a lecture delivered on the 10th of December, 1845, in the Mechanics' Institute at Plymouth / by Viscount Ebrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![shire and the pecuniary loss caused to the community by the amount of preventible ill health accompanying that excessive mortality in those towns. These have been omit- ted as superfluous and uninteresting except to a local audience after the full details given respecting Preston.] Much else there is which I fain would have spoken of, such as the necessity for improved public parks and places for healthful and innocent recreation and exercise, for public baths and washhouses; the former I need not dwell upon, for in the lectures you will have upon the in- fluence of the state of the skin on health and its import- ant functions, you will be told of the importance of per- sonal cleanliness and frequent ablutions. The public washhouses I do trust, before long, to see established here. When I know the misery and discomfort conse- quent on the work of the laundry being carried on in their one room, with no proper appliances for the purpose, with no garden for a drying-ground outside, as in the country —when I consider how the steam and slops make every- thing damp and mouldy, as well as untidy, I see that the discomfort attendant on the operation must tend either to make them dread it and put it off as long as possible, or else to drive the husband from his home very frequently (for washing makes it quite untenable), to the destruction of domestic comfort; I cannot doubt that some exertion will be made here, in this charitable and public-spirited II .—Pkoxi mate Estimate of Pecuniary and other Saving from Sanitary Improvements in Preston. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ■ 7 8 Saving in Reduction Saving in the Saving of the excess Saving in by one-half expense of Productive Saving by one-third of Births day's labour of the Insurance, by Manure Saving in Saving of beyond Irom existing keeping estimated at Washing, outside of the lin44 sickness, expense of the water on 10s. per head &c. conse- painting of actual of e*timating Widowhood night and on the whole quent on the Shops and number of the Popu- one-third of and day, so as to Population- burning Houses ; Deaths. lation ; the cases Orphanage, be ill readiness All liquid and of Factory estimating The the out of the the at one solid Manure Smoke. the cost per expense of expense of expense. amount j minute's and Street Estimated at House at each each — taken from notice. Esti- Sweepings Id. per head 25s., and being Birth 16,710 the actual mated on half being carried per week the saving at estimated being Cases. expendi- the number of out of Town of the one-fourth at 2«. 10s. taken at 1/. ture. Houses at 6s. per House. by the Sewers. Population. of the sum. £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ 1,240 827 7,047 501 15,000 25,000 10,450 1,250 Total annual saving to the town . Total weekly saving to the town . Total annual saving to each house Total weekly saving to each house Total annual saving to each individual Total weekly saving to each individual . £47,815 0 0 . ■ 919 10 4 . 4 15 7 0 1 10 0 19 1 0 0 4± B 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21052724_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
