Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge.

  • Legge, Sir Thomas Morison, 1863-1932.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    tenance of the main thoroughfares, the Statistical Office, the Observatory at Montsouris, and the cemeteries. On the other hand, matters requiring the appointment of inspectors usually, but by no means always, fall to the charge of the Prefect of Police ; as, for example, the care of the abattoirs, the markets, and the inspection of meat and food generally, the inspection of animals according to the terms of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, the muni- cipal laboratory, and the detection of the adulteration of food-stuffs, the inspection of dangerous or unhealthy trades, the inspection of infants boarded out, and of children working in factories and workshops, the regulation of prosti- tution, the Morgue, the ambulance stations for street or river accidents, the inspection of lodging-houses, and of private roads and courts, and the suppression of illegal practice in medicine and pharmacy. Further, in 1S92, the various services for obtaining information as to the deaths from infectious diseases, and carrying out the necessary measures of disinfection, were centralized under a permanent Committee at the Prefecture of Police. Where the two departments seem to clash is in matters connected with house sanitation, where, above all others, it is least desirable. Both have, for instance, powers as to the disinfection of premises; the one, the Prefecture of the Seine, has elaborated its equipment by the provision of ambulances and of steam disinfecting ovens, etc., to a remarkable extent, while the other still continues to do nothing more than fumigate the room with sulphur. This has led to much friction in the past, only having disappeared of late owing to its being recognized how much more efficacious the methods of the former were. It has been said above that the inspection of lodging- houses (hotels garnis) falls under the Prefecture of Police, but the committee charged with the inquiries into unhealthy