Reports on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population in Scotland: In Consequence of an Inquiry Directed to be Made by the Poor Law Commissioners |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amount Anderston arising attended believe burgh Calton causes charity chiefly cholera circumstances clean cleanliness closes clothes colliers comfort Commissioners considerable contagion contagious cottages court Court of Session destitution disease dispensary district Ditto drains drunkenness Dumfries dunghills dwellings Edinburgh effluvia employment epidemic evil exists extent external families filth Fisherrow frequently Glasgow Gorbals Greenock habits heritors High-street hinds hospital houses inhabitants instances Inveresk Kilmarnock labouring classes Lanark lodging-houses magistrates malaria means measles mortality Musselburgh neighbourhood neighbours nuisance occasions occupied operation opinion parish parliamentary burgh paupers persons pluviometer police Poor Law poorer classes population poverty present prevailed proper proportion proprietors provision Query relief removed Report respect royal burgh scarlet fever Scotland seldom sewers sickness situated small-pox streets supply tion Total town Townhead Tranent typhus unwholesome ventilation village wages Wallacetown weavers week whiskey whole widows winter