Obstacles arising from defective local arrangements for efficient expenditure in local public works 323
Inconveniences of legislation on details, and the want of scientific and trustworthy direction 328
High rates of charges, by fees, for superintendence of imperfect structural arrangements 329
Extent of waste in expenditure on local public works, and on separate collections 333
Public facilities for private land drainage afforded by consolidation 337
Grounds of unpopularity and distrust of new local expenditure 339
_Boards of Health or public officers for the prevention of disease_:— 340
Inefficiency of Boards of Health, as ordinarily constituted 340
Failure of Boards of Health in Ireland 342
Importance of the functions of medical officers in connexion with the executive authority 343
Means and economy of skilled services for the prevention of diseases 348
Administrative measures for the prevention of disease amongst the labouring classes 349
Administrative means for promoting the extension of medical science 352
VIII. COMMON LODGING-HOUSES THE MEANS OF PROPAGATING DISEASE AND VICE:— 356
State of the common lodging-houses in the Barnet union, 357; in Birmingham, 357; in Brighton, 358; in Manchester, 358; in the Stockport union, 360; in the Macclesfield union, 360; in Durham, 361; in the Teesdale union, 361; in the Tynemouth union, 361; in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 362; in Tranent, Haddingtonshire, 362; in Tain, Ross-shire, 362; in the borough of Warwick, 363; in Chelmsford 364
Grounds for subjecting common lodging-houses to the responsibilities of public-houses and beer-shops 364
Practical illustration of the regulations of common lodging-houses 366
Recapitulation of the chief conclusions deduced on the information obtained in the course of the inquiry 369
Conclusions as to the available means of prevention 370
Grounds for uniformity of legislation 372
1. Evidence of Mr. John Roe, civil engineer, on the practical improvement in sewerage and drainage tried in the Holborn and Finsbury divisions of the metropolis 373
2. Evidence of Mr. John Darke, contractor for cleansing, as to the obstacles to cleansing, and the conversion of the refuse of the metropolis to productive uses 379
3. Evidence of Mr. John Treble, contractor for cleansing, as to the obstacles to cleansing, and the conversion of the refuse of the metropolis to productive uses 380