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DB. R. ANGUS SMITII ON ANC[ENT AND 



year; attention to their ventilation by windows with open 

 casements, &c. ; the inspection of cotton mills, oi* other 

 factories, at stated seasons, with regular returns of the con- 

 dition as ta health, clothing, appearance, and behaviour of 

 the persons employed in them ; of the time allowed for re- 

 freshment at breakfast or dinner; of the number of hours 

 assigned for labour ; and of the accommodations of those who 

 are parochial apprentices, or who are not under the immediate 

 direction of their parents or friends; the limitation and regu- 

 lation of lodging-houses, or the establishment of caravanseras 

 for passengers, or those who come to seek employment unre- 

 commeuded or unknown ; the establishment of public warm and 

 cold baths, provision for particular attention to the cleaning 

 the streets which are inhabited by the poor, and for the speedy 

 removal of dunghills and every species of filth ; the dimi- 

 nution, as far as practicable, of all noxious effluvia, such as 

 those which arise from the workhouses of the fellmonger, the 

 yards of the tanner, and the slaughter-houses of the butcher ; 

 the superintendence of the several markets, with a view to the 

 prevention of the sale of putrid flesh or fish, and of unsound 

 flour or other vegetable productions." 



At the fifth annual meeting of the Board, May 30th, 

 1800, it is said, that "fever is continually generated in filthy 

 lodging-houses, in crowded factories, in damp cellars, and in 

 placea exposed to the baneful effluvia of dunghills, from 

 sewers, and stagnant waters." 



And on December 10th, 1801, Dr. Bardsley read a paper 

 containing the following :— " 1st. Be careful to avoid living in 

 dark, damp, and confined cellars, or in back streets, adjoining 

 to privies or heaps of offensive and corrupted matter." 



Then the Board adds, (and I may remark here that Dr. Henry 

 was also engaged on this Board,)—" In many parts of the t»WH, 

 houses are erected with their fronts opposite to open privies, 

 and joining to accumulations of every kind of filth, and where 

 the space between the front of one range of buildings and the 



