Our sanitary laws : how they are administered : a contribution to the discussion of the question of public health / by Robert Kirkwood, M.D., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.
- Kirkwood, Robert, M.D.
- Date:
- 1882
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Credit: Our sanitary laws : how they are administered : a contribution to the discussion of the question of public health / by Robert Kirkwood, M.D., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![me to say so, in official correspondence. For the letter of 22nd December, 1879, see p. 8. On lGth December Dr. Littlejohn paid his second visit to the farm. He did not call upon me on this occasion. All things continuing as they were, on the 17th March, 1881, I again wrote the Board :—“ Perhaps you will kindly permit me now, on the elapse of another four months, to remind you that your letter of 17th November last was only a reply i in the meantime,’ and to ask you to favour me with a copy of Dr. Littlejohn’s report, if he has reported, as I presume he must, after his second visit to ; and also to inform me as to the state of matters at the steading now, I mean as regards its sanitary condition. I should not like to be thought captious, but I must take exception to your statement that ‘ of this action on the part of the Board you were duly informed,’ if by it it is intended to convey the impression that the statement made in the sentence going- before had been previously made to me. I was not told of ‘ a request that the Privy Council would take such action as they might deem necessary,’ nor ‘ that the Board had no jurisdiction under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act.’ But it was stated ‘ that the observations of the Local Authority of Largs have now been received, and the Board have remitted.I the whole subject [italics mine, B.K.] to Dr. Littlejohn, their medical officer, to enquire and report.’ . . . At all hazards, I must continue to press upon the attention of your Board the dangers attaching to a steading so faultily constructed as , dangers which, as cannot fail to be known to your Board, a growing experience throughout the country but too frequently and painfully confirms. Equally pressing is the question of water supply.” . . . On the 23rd March the Board sent me a copy of Dr. Littlejohn’s report. It is as follows :— “jFinal Report on the Sanitary State of farm, Largs. ' “ In obedience to the instructions of the Board I proceeded on Thursday, 16th December, and carefully inspected the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24933521_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
