The evolution of the function of public health administration : as illustrated by the sanitary history of Glasgow in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1854, with an exposition of results / by James B. Russell.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
1895
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Credit: The evolution of the function of public health administration : as illustrated by the sanitary history of Glasgow in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1854, with an exposition of results / by James B. Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. The Scotch Registration Act came into force on 1st January, 1855. We have therefore now an accurate record of the vital statistics of Glasgow for exactly forty years. When we look back upon the history of municipal admini- stration as regards the public health, we find that, speaking generally, the first ten of those forty years represents the period of awakening and groping for an instrument and a method, the remaining thirty, the period of resolute endeavour, working through a developing organization, and becoming year by year more precise in direction, so that every ten years represents a stage in administrative progress. This in itself suggests that the time is convenient for an enquiry into results. The anticipated revision of the whole internal administration of Glasgow in 1896, the approaching removal of the Sanitary Department from the somewhat dingy premises in which it has dwelt for a quarter of a century, and which it has long outgrown, and the sense of quickening life which is felt in the city, and seems to foretell an era of new departures, all mark the opportune occasion for a retrospect,