JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
COTTAGE SANITATION. 
Prefatory Note. 
The following paper is the outcome of a meeting held on 
October 29, 1892. 
Having been consulted on the question by Earl Cathcart, 
Chairman of the Journal Committee, I thought it best to take 
counsel with some gentlemen who are technically engaged at the 
present time in guiding sanitary work, rural and urban. 
There met me at my house : — 
Mr. R. N. Hartley, Lecturer on Hygiene in the Yorkshire 
College, Leeds ; 
Dr. Spottiswoode Cameron, Medical OflScer of Health to the 
County Borough of Leeds ; 
Dr. Whitelegge, Medical OflBcer of Health to the West 
Riding County Council ; 
Dr. Mitchell Wilson, Medical Officer of Health to the 
Doncaster Combined District ; 
Mr. F. Atkinson, Medical Officer of Health to the Craven 
Combined (Rural) District, and 
Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secretary to the Royal Agricultural 
Society. 
After a long discussion of the various points that ought to 
be dealt with in such an essay, notes of which were taken by 
Mr. Clarke, it was arranged that Dr. H. M'Lean Wilson 
should be invited to write a paper embodying the views agreed 
to at the meeting, under the supervision of Dr. Cameron and 
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