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The Fever Ambulance.
During the past year four small-pox patients were
removed to the Small Pox Hospital at Highgate; and
five cases of Fever were sent to the Fever Hospital at
Islington, at an expense of £14: 10s.
"Why should industrious, prosperous and wealthy
communities see their people perish year after year at
appalling rates, without trying some radical and
effectual measures of reform?
This is not a question of mere opinion, but of life
and death; it is not a question of a day, but of all time.
Shall the town breeds degenerate and die out, or
improve and live? There appears to be disputes as to
particular measures to be adopted; Why should not
experiments be made in various blocks of houses? The
water supply is an excellent preliminary, but the houses
must follow. The refuse must be day by day removed
from the dwellings, and this the householder cannot
accomplish in large towns. It is municipal work."
Note from Dr. Farr, in Quarterly Report for
December 1869.