Metropolitan water supply, present and future ; in four letters to the "Daily News" newspaper / by John Loude Tabberner.

  • Tabberner, John Loude.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Metropolitan water supply, present and future ; in four letters to the "Daily News" newspaper / by John Loude Tabberner. 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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    respective grades of society continue to be acknow- ledged and respected. Example is a first incentive to moral reformation; and until the parent is phy- sically stimulated and morally reformed, to an active sense that it is his first natural duty to nurture his ofispring in virtuous and honest habits, no sound moral or intellectual progress will be manifest amongst the lower orders. The root and the stem must be made healthy before the branches will blossom or bear fruit; or where, from irretrievable decay, the former accomplishment is rendered im- possible, the latter must be entirely lopped from the parent trunk, and, in the absence of natural support and protection, must be afibrded compre- hensive and enlightened public succour. That the means of cleanliness—an unintermit- TENT SUPPLY OF WATER,, the fivst element of j)hysical improvement, and the strongest buhvark against dis- ease—is the very fulcrum of all sanitary ameliorations must be, and is, universally admitted; and as such, therefore, it should be a subject of the first consider- ation in contemplating efiective and substantial sanitary improvements. I have not, in the annexed Letters, adverted to other questions necessary to be considered in per- fecting an efficient sanitary code; but my conviction is, that the drainage and sewerage, paving and lighting, and the erection of metropolitan buildings, should be under the administrative powers of the same commission as the water supply—at least, if not under one and the same commission, they should respectively be under the control of such responsibly