Report (-third Report) Upon the Sanitary Condition of ... Oxfordshire, Том 1 |
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acres amount appears bad cottages Banbury Rural District Bicester Rural District cesspool Charlbury Chipping Norton closed by order Date of inspector's defects difficulty district medical officer doubt drinking purposes epidemic disease exists Extent of district filth foul matter Government Board Henley houses in district houses reported houses visited human habitation inhabitants Inspector.-Mr Inspector's account inspector's appointment large district legislation Norton Rural District nuisances reported Number of houses number of nuisances Number of parishes Number remaining unremedied Number unremedied occurred officer of health on-Thames outfall Oxfordshire Port Meadow present quarantine regard remedied 9 reported as unfit Result of proceedings returns of sickness Rural Sanitary Authority sanitary condition sanitary law sewage matter situated soil square miles stream taken 12 Thame tion Total number trict typhoid fever unfit for habitation unfit for human Union Urban District Urban Sanitary Authority ventilation visited by inspector watercourse whole Woodstock yards
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Стр. 15 - When packed in one reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride'bed, And the walls let in the day; When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the cursed workhouse door.
Стр. 15 - ... room, or into the cupboard which serves as the only larder Many of these same houses are to be found in a condition of dirt and dilapidation which no one would believe who had not seen them. I have entered many almost completely black, reeking of smoke and filth, damp, clammy, and noisome, with broken windows, split doors, plaster dropping from the ceilings, stairs half broken away, holes in the bedroom floors pasted up with old newspapers, and holes in the roof letting in the weather upon the...
Стр. 15 - ... dropping from the ceilings, stairs half broken away, holes in the bedroom floors pasted up with old newspapers, and holes in the roof letting in the weather upon the bundles of foul sacking which represent a bed and clothing, and when to all this I add that I have constant cases brought before me in which six, eight, or ten people are sleeping in one such room as I have now faintly described, I am compelled to admit that there is no exaggeration in Canon Kingsley's picture of the cottage —...
Стр. 13 - ... on ground some foot or two below the level of the surrounding soil, and perhaps with an ill-drained yard close to them, the filth of which runs or oozes into the living rooms, or they are built with the back hard against the side of a hill or high bank, or the soil of a neighbouring burying ground on a higher level, or upon a bit of land so small as to admit of none of the necessary appliances for drainage, privy accommodation, or even ventilation. I can recall instances in plenty within my own...
Стр. 13 - decency and morality are stated in many cases to be impossible." Finally, an extract from a report of the sanitary condition of Oxfordshire, by Dr. Child, the Medical Officer of Health for the united sanitary districts of that county, will only serve to deepen the picture. He says : — " Houses are frequently built in damp, marshy situations, or they are built in a pit, or on ground some foot or two below the level of the surrounding soil, and perhaps with an ill-drained yard close to them, the...
Стр. 14 - ... on a higher level, or upon a bit of land so small as to admit of none of the necessary appliances for drainage, privy accommodation, or even ventilation. I can recall instances in plenty, within my own district, of every one of these conditions Houses consisting of only two rooms, though containing a whole family, built with the floor of the living room immediately upon the undrained soil ; sometimes containing rooms with only a borrowed light, or with no light at all ; often with a privy or...
Стр. 14 - ... just under a bedroom window, or so arranged as to soak through into a living room, or into the cupboard which serves as the only larder Many of these same houses are to be found in a condition of dirt and dilapidation which no one would believe who had not seen them. I have entered many almost completely black, reeking of smoke and filth, damp, clammy, and noisome, with broken windows, split doors, plaster dropping from the ceilings, stairs half broken away, holes in the bedroom floors pasted...
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