Punch,  61 (1871), 76.

Good Old Ways at Winchester

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Sanitation, Disease, Public Health, Government


    Discusses a report in the Hampshire Advertiser of a meeting of the Winchester Board of Health, which heard a proposal by one councillor to appoint an officer of health and also discussed the local mortuary house. Concludes from the report that the inhabitants of Winchester appear to prefer the unsanitary path of leaving the dead 'well alone'. Explains that the breezes which sweep down to Winchester from the surrounding chalk hills dilute the 'unsavoury contributions' from polluted 'receptacles' in the city, but hopes the local board of health will undertake sanitary reform.



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