Former health of gaols as compared with the present state 211
Effects of sanitary measures of prevention on the health of prisoners 214
Comparison of the experience of sickness amongst different classes of people 216
Amount of sickness experienced by the labouring classes 217
Effects of sanitary measures in the prevention of disease in the army and navy 219
_Cost to tenants and owners of the public measures for drainage, cleansing, and the supplies of water, as compared with the cost of sickness_:— 222
Cost of measures of prevention as compared with the cost of sickness and mortality 222
Means of payment for improved accommodation 227
Impolicy of exemptions of tenements from proper charges 229
Injurious effects of exemptions of labourers’ tenements 230
Inability of workmen to improve their own condition 231
Necessity of extrinsic aid for the improvement of the condition of the working classes 232
_Employers’ influence on the health of workpeople, by means of improved habitations_:— 233
Advantages to labourers of holding tenements in connexion with their employments 233
Instance of a superior moral and sanitary condition enjoyed by workers in a cotton factory 236
Elevation of a manufacturing population by improvements in the condition of their dwellings 238
Most advantageous construction of manufactories for the health of the workpeople 240
_The employers’ influence on the health of workpeople_:— 245
By modes of payment which do not lead to temptations to intemperance 245
By the promotion of personal cleanliness 253
By the ventilation of the places of work and the prevention of noxious fumes, dust, &c. 256
Employers’ or owners’ influence in the improvement of habitations and sanitary arrangements for the protection of the labouring classes in the rural districts 261
Instances of, in the Bedford Union, 262; Stafford Union, 263, in Norfolk and Suffolk, 264; at Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, 266; at the Earl of Rosebery’s estate, Scotland, 266; at Closeburn, Dumfries, 266; Turton and Bollington, Lancashire, 267; Birmingham 267
Instances of the influence of the materials used in building upon the health of the inmates in Cheshire, Lancashire, Buckingham and Berkshire 267
Instances of efficient improvements in the detail of labourers’ dwellings in Scotland 270