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SANITARY CONDITION OF THE LABOURING POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN.
BY EDWIN CHADWICK, ESQ., BARRISTER AT LAW, AND SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS.
GENERAL PREVALENCE OF EPIDEMIC, ENDEMIC, AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Return of the number of deaths in 1838, in each county, from epidemic, endemic, and other diseases, most powerfully affected by the physical state of a district 2
Extent of evils which are the subject of inquiry 3
I. GENERAL CONDITION OF THE RESIDENCES OF THE LABOURING CLASSES, WHERE DISEASE IS FOUND TO BE THE MOST PREVALENT— 5
In Heaton Norris, Stockport union, Chester 17
II. PUBLIC ARRANGEMENTS, EXTERNAL TO THE RESIDENCES, BY WHICH THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE LABOURING POPULATION IS AFFECTED— 25
_Town drainage of streets and houses._ 26
Instances of the effects on the public health of the neglect of town drainage—
Comparative mortality in two similar towns, one drained, the other undrained—
At Knutton and Chesterton, Stafford, &c. 30
_Street and road cleansing—road pavements._ 36
Defective from want of skill or proper combination of means 36
Different influence on the public health of paved and unpaved streets, instance of, in Portsmouth 37
Instance of the effect on the public health of street cleansing in Macclesfield 37
Instances of the neglect of street cleansing—
Instances of the consequences on the public health of the neglect of road cleansing in rural districts in England and in Scotland 42
Discipline in respect to cleanliness of the army superior to the civic economy of the towns 44
_House cleansing as connected with street cleansing and sewerage._
Instances of the sanitary condition of houses in the metropolis where the cesspools do not communicate with the drains 45