English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon.

  • Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.
Date:
1897
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    TABLE OF PABTICULABS. CHAPTER I. E AKLIE ST TIMES. PAGES Pre-historic Nature, and Man as part of it. Pre-historie Nests of Mankind, and the beginnings of Society. First evidences of co-operative effort; Communal Agriculture ; Communal Pood-Stores. Water-supplies : as to quantity; as to quality. Early drainage and flood-walls. Early dealings with refuse-matter. Question of definite Sanitary Aims: Indian, Egyptian, Hebrew, and Greek 1—17 CHAPTER II. THE ROMAN INSTITUTIONS. Prom b.c. 500 : the iEdiles and the Censors. Rome under Augustus: Sewers; Pavement; Aqueducts ; Thermse ; Latrines and urinals; Removal of City refuse; Streets, and their cleanliness; Law as to Nuisances, public and private. Regulation of Trade. Medical Profession from Third Century, B.C.; Privileges allowed to Medical Practitioners ; Public Medical Officers; Medical Service of the Poor. Pall of Rome . 18—29 CHAPTER III. POST-ROMAN ANARCHY AND THE RE-COMMENCEMENTS. Post-Roman obstacles to civil Progress: Warfare; Religious segregation; Spread of Asceticism. Mediaeval revivals not much for sedile uses. New rise of Corporations: municipal, industrial, and scholastic. Sacerdotal Empire. Mediaeval Medicine, and the conditions of Public Health: Leprosy and Leper-Houses; Pestilences and Quarantine; Indigence and Famines and squalid life. London in 13th-15th Centuries: Abatement of Nuisances; Lepers; Supervision of Trade; Supervision of Brothels. Reference to other town-governments . 30—44 CHAPTER IV. MEDLEVAL PHILANTHROPY. Germs of Philanthropy ubiquitous. Early Christian institutions of bene- ficence. Benedictine Monasteries in relation to the Poor. Francis of Assisi, and his Order, and its Degeneration. Extensive demoralisa- tion imputed to the Religious Orders generally. Mediseval Mendicancy tending to be ruinous. Criticism of ascetic vows as basis for philanthropic organisation. Surviving gratitude to the Mediasval Orders. . . 45—64