The Sanitary Evolution of London

THE health of the people of a country stands foremost in the rank of national considerations. Upon their health depends their physical strength and energy, upon it their mental...

Previous to the fifth decade of the last century it was only very rarely that the prevalence of disease, or any subject connected with the health of the community, received reco...

The "City" of London, though constituting territorially and by population but a small portion of the metropolis, affords much matter of deep interest in connection with the sani...

The great cholera epidemic of 1848-9 had deeply stirred public feeling in London. It had destroyed 14,600 people (and diarrhoea, its satellite, had destroyed many thousands more...

The epidemic of cholera in 1849 had failed to produce any lasting effect upon the local authorities or the public opinion of London, and the nemesis of renewed neglect and indif...

THE Act "for the better Local Management of the Metropolis"[54] which was passed by Parliament in 1855 was the turning point in the sanitary history and evolution of London.

From 2,363,341 persons in 1851, the population had gone up to 2,808,494 in 1861--an increase not very far short of half a million; and the number of inhabited houses had increas...

The population had gone up to 3,254,260 in 1871, from the 2,808,862 it had been in 1861, an increase of 445,398. But the rate of increase was declining. The decennial increase o...

In the central parts of London, with the single exception of Clerkenwell, the resident population continued to decrease. In the City, the decrease was nearly one-third; in the S...

IN 1891 the census once more gave authoritative figures as to the population of the metropolis of London. The population had increased from 3,830,297 to 4,228,317.

and 1882, with amendments. It enabled the Vestries or District Boards to take proceedings before a magistrate for the clearing and demolition of single houses unfit for human ha...

Power was given for the acquisition by the Council of land for the purpose of erecting lodging-houses thereon. Such land, however, was to be within the Council's jurisdiction. U...

All preparations for the change were completed by the autumn of 1899; the new Municipal Councils were elected on the 4th of November, the forty-three Vestries and District Board...

ONCE more the census placed on record the actual population of the great metropolis, no longer divided, so far as local government was concerned, into parishes and districts, bu...

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