Municipal hygiene and demography.
- International Congress of Hygiene and Demography
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Municipal hygiene and demography. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![present germ-laden air is as purified from contagion as is the filtered water now drunk by the people. In conclusion, it must be added in justice to the Corporation of Calcutta, that the Municipal Commissioners are fully alive to the urgent necessity of enei'getically pursuing the course of sanitaiy improvement. Immense as are the difficulties of introducing sanitation into an Oriental city according to the western ideas of the present day, the problem in Calcutta is now in process of solution. Enormous sums have already been spent, and will continue to be spent; but it must be remembered that progress can only be gradual, and that the local autliorities are hampered not only by financial considerations, but by the conservative habits of the people, which in the eyes of a sanitary reformer appear too often to be purely obstructive. It must be remembered, also, that the secret of overcoming this obstruction is to be found, not in attempting to coerce ])opular feeling by persistemt condemnation, but in conciliation and sympathy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28045506_0165.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
