Lecture on sanitary reform / by Alexander Thomson.

  • Alexander Thomson
Date:
1860
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Credit: Lecture on sanitary reform / by Alexander Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY REFORM. I have been asked to address you this evening on the sub¬ ject of Sanitary Reform—and I have much pleasure in doing so, especially as this meeting is in connection with the Aberdeen Ladies’ Auxiliary Association—a recent addition to the many valuable social institutions existing amongst you, and from which I anticipate the most valuable results. It is especially work for female hands to do—many of its details are familiar to them though perfoundly mysterious to us men—they are at home and at ease with matters, the practical details of which we cannot easily comprehend, though we are thorougly aware of their importance, and can perfectly appreciate their results. I am to deliver the first of a series of Lectures, and there¬ fore it seems to me that I should endeavour this evening to speak mostly of general principles—knowing that others more able than myself will follow with ampler details, but not alto¬ gether avoiding them when they come naturally in my way. My difficulty is not the want of subjects on which to speak, but because there are so many, and so distinct, which fall legi¬ timately under the description of Sanitary Reform, that it is not easy to know how to make a selection. Sanitary Reform embraces all measures by which the life and health of man can be preserved and prolonged—whether by great public undertakings, enforced by Acts of Parliament, and carried out by public Boards, or petty daily actions within our own homes, all having one object in view, the good sanitary condition of the community—and you must at
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