ACCIDENTAL INJURIES: THEIR RELIEF AND IMMEDIATE
TREATMENT.

AMBULANCE ORGANIZATION, EQUIPMENT, AND TRANSPORT.
CLEANSING STREETS AND WAYS IN THE METROPOLIS, ETC.
FIRES AND FIRE BRIGADES.

LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN RELATION TO THE DWELLINGS OF
THE POOR.

SCHOOLS OF ART: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY, WORK, AND
INFLUENCE.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE

Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition,
and for the Council of the Society of Arts,

BY

WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXHIBITION,

AND 13, CHARING CROSS, S.W.

1884.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD street AND CHARING CROSS.

HANDBOOKS.

OUR DUTY IN RELATION TO HEALTH. By G. V. POORE,
M.D.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND ITS PREVENTION. By
SHIRLEY F. MURPHY, M.R.C.S.

ACCIDENTAL INJURIES: THEIR RELIEF AND IMME-
DIATE TREATMENT. By JAMES CANTLIE, M.A., M.B.,
F.R.C.S.

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AMBULANCE ORGANIZATION, EQUIPMENT, AND TRANS-
PORT. BY SUrgeon-Major G. J. H. EVATT, M.D., A.M.D.
CLEANSING STREETS AND WAYS IN THE METROPOLIS
AND LARGE CITIES. By Wм. BOOTH SCOTT, M. Inst. C.E.. 389
FIRES AND FIRE BRIGADES. BY CAPTAIN EYRE M. SHAW, C.B. 503
LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN RELATION TO THE DWELL-
INGS OF THE POOR. By HARRY DUFF, M.A., B.C.L. With
a Preface by ARTHUR COHEN, Esq., Q.C., M.P.

SCHOOLS OF ART: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY, WORK,
AND INFLUENCE. BY JOHN C. L. SPARKES

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PREFACE.

THE importance of the subjects dealt with in the following pages and their intimate bearing upon the well-being of mankind will not be disputed. The question is rather whether public interest in them is, or can be, so aroused as to popularise their study.

Scientific people ought not to be supercilious in regard to the apathy and ignorance which still, unfortunately, prevail upon matters relating to public health. Most of what is here so clearly laid down and so well explained is the product of modern research and observation. Although the principles of these, as of all scientific truths, are old and eternal, the need for their application to our daily wants has only been realised since the growth of population has brought about evils which could no longer be ignored by the people, or suffered to escape State interference.

The clustering of many households in our urban community must, from the first, have led to the establishment of common agencies for those services in connection with the dwelling-house which are discharged, in our modern parlance, by "the local authority," at the cost of the "local rate."

Drainage of houses, surface drainage, scavenging, paving and lighting of streets, water supply, prevention or extinction of fire, &c., must have been provided by each householder for himself if he had not a municipality to furnish such conveniences more cheaply and more comprehensively at the common charge-a charge readily borne as lending value to each separate habitation.