The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN TOWNS 809 drainage, or a sufficient water-supply, would contribute to a 4-D.177 diminution of mortality!, They also pointed out that the injury to health, which arose from noxious manufactures, might be minimised by proper precautions’. The Public 3 Hoi Health Act of 1848 was based on their recommendations; ment as it created a central authority* to take steps through the 9°" action of inspectors for constituting local boards; the powers given under the Act provided for the removal of nuisances, and for insisting that any new buildings® erected should conform with a new standard of sanitary requirement. Ad- ditional powers were conferred from time to times®, as to the removal of nuisances and insanitary property, but so long as the Local Boards were separate and independent bodies little progress was made in enforcing the Acts. Since the consti- tution of the Local Government Board in 18717, there has been more possibility of bringing pressure to bear on the local authorities, and of exercising some control over sanitary zonditions in all parts of the country. The analogy of the system of factory and mining reform has not been followed very far, however, as various aspects of the sanitary problem are dealt with by different departments, instead of being committed to one central authority, and there is not sufficient staff for constant inspection. In the meantime a beginning was made in dealing with another side of the problem. It was not only necessary to The work see to the qualitative conditions of the labourers’ dwellings, but Lo for to take steps with a view to providing an amount of accommo- die dation that should meet local requirements, without serious danger of overcrowding. Lord Shaftesbury’s Labouring ut on an inadequate scale. t Reports of Commissioners for inquiring into the State of Large Towns, 1845, vit, 7. * Reports, 1845, xviir. 51. 8 11 and 12 Vict. c. 63. ¢ The Central Board was reconstituted in 1854, and in 1858 its powers were iransferred to the Privy Council. 8 The Report of the Select Committee of 1840, which contains some interesting statistics as to the rapid growth of Manchester, Glasgow, and other factory towns ‘Reports, 1840, x1. 279), advocated the introduction of a General Building Act. Rules were laid down for London in 1844 (7 and 8 Vict. c. 84) and permissive powers were conferred on local authorities generally in 1858. 8 18 and 19 Vict. c. 121 and 29 and 30 Viet. c. 90. ! The necessity of better sanitary administration was one of the chief reasons for taking this step. Reports. 1871, xxxv. 37.

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