Chapter III: Circumstances Chiefly in the Internal Economy and Bad

VENTILATION OF PLACES OF WORK; WORKMEN’S LODGING-HOUSES,
DWELLINGS, AND THE DOMESTIC HABITS AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF
THE LABOURING CLASSES. 98

Various effects of overcrowding places of work, as shown in
the case of one class of workmen 98

Comparative ease and economy of measures of prevention
rather than of relief 104

Sanitary effects of ventilation on workpeople at Glasgow 107

Effects of defective ventilation on the health of milliners
and dressmakers in the metropolis 107

Instances of the effects of defective ventilation of
sleeping rooms of the working classes 108

Effects of the defective economy of lodging-houses and
places of repose exemplified in the duration of life of
one class of workmen 112

Instances of errors in respect to the sanitary effects of
particular occupations 113

Injurious effects of deficient ventilation in schools 119

_Bad ventilation and overcrowding private houses._ 120

Great apparent increase in the proportionate number of
houses according to the last census attributable to a
different mode of making the return 120

Instances of great overcrowding in cottages in—

Greenock, 121; Tranent, 121; Sleaford union 122

_The want of separate apartments and overcrowding of private
dwellings._ 122

Effects of the overcrowding of private dwellings on the
morals of the population, instances of, in—

The Ampthill union, 122; the Leighton Buzzard union, 123;
the Bicester union, 123; the Romsey union, 123; among the
border peasantry, 124; in Manchester, Liverpool,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Hull, 124; in Leeds, 126; in
Nottingham, 126; in Clitheroe 126

Instances of the injurious influences of bad tenements upon
the personal condition and moral habits of the inmates 128

Effects of noxious agencies in preventing frugality and
promoting intemperance 129

In preventing the influence of education 132

Force of habits of intemperance in the use of spirituous
liquors against all habits of decency, or frugality, or
morality 133

Misconceptions as to casualties occurring among the indigent
or profligate 134

Intemperance the cause of fever 136

_Domestic mismanagement a predisposing cause of disease._ 137

Mismanagement of earnings obstructive to the domestic
improvement of the sanitary condition of the labouring
classes.

Instances of in—

Derby, 137; Birmingham, 138; Manchester, 139; Preston union,
140; Ayr, 141; Tranent, 141; Dundee 142

Attacks of fever most frequent on workmen in full employment
and ordinary health 145, 147

Irrelevancy of controversy on the generation of fever, in
respect to practical means of prevention 148

Concurrence of medical opinions as to the most efficient
means of preventing fever 150