The sanitary question in Malta : remarks and suggestions to the honorable elective members of the Council of Government / proposed by Charles Casolani.
- Casolani, Charles.
- Date:
- 1880
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Credit: The sanitary question in Malta : remarks and suggestions to the honorable elective members of the Council of Government / proposed by Charles Casolani. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![G5 Extracts from JDr. Sutherland and Captain Oalton's Beport. Written in 1861, a7id presented to JParliament in 18G3. Plans were advertised for, and several very good plans wore seut in, one of which, after undergoing some improvements in details, was selected as a model. A.U entire new Suburb of model dwellings, for the labouring classes will, in all probability be constructed, in connection with the new harbonr. The building ground will be leased subject to the adoption of the plan ; and as the improved houses are built, Valletta will be cleared of the old unhealthy tenements which are at present its opprobrium. Appendix, No. 12 and 13, show the steps which have been hitherto taken to give effect to this important improvement. (See Government Notice of the 2nd October, ]858, in reference to the Camerata (Appendix A) and Government Notice of the ISlh October, 1861, iu reference to *'FranconV* Buildings, Appendix D.) With reference to the remarks made by the Crown Advocate on the 23rd of January last, concerning the healthy houses built ou the site formerly covered by the Camerata, we wish to point out that the plan for those houses, designed by Dr. C. Casolaui, was superior to any of those for which prizes were accorded, and that it is not true that the Government was ** finally pressed by that party to permit even deviations from the plau that had been settled. It is true that some time after the building was completed, the owner sold the property ; but the character of the building has not in any way been altered ; and those healthy apartments are now occupied by the wives and families of non-commissioned officers and soldiers stationed in this garrison. So that if the Government liad continued to grant sites on the same conditions on which the Uamerata was granted in 1859, there would by this time have been hundreds and even thousands of healthy houses for the poor, and the obnoxious lodging-houses would long ago have been improved, if not rebuilt. As to the healthiness of those houses, Dr. Sutherland gave it as his opinion in 1863 that the Crmerata was in many other respects superior to the blocks of buildings for the labouring classes, built in the suburbs of London, and that the plans of the Camerata were superior to those of the Maison Cite, for which the Emperor Napoleon III had obtained the gold medal from the Commissioners of the Paris Universal Exhibition. He was convinced that had the plans of the Camerata been exhibited with the others, they would have been awarded that medal by the Jury. Ou the 21st November, 1876, Dr. Sutherland quoted the Camerata as a model to be imitated. Under the circumstances, we believe the Crown Advocate, instead of speaking disparagingly of the Camerata, might have said a good word in favour of the designer of these houses, who recommended the reform to Sir G. LeMarchant; and perhaps the hon'ble and learned gentleman would have done so, but for the political differences which have long existed between him and Dr. C. Casolaui who looks upon the Crown Advocate as the causQ of Lis ruiu and that of tho whole family.—(Pm5//c Opinion.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297575_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
