The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-12-15 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS,

This Association is formed to carry out under the
supervision of eminent scientific and practical men
works now universally acknowledged to be essential
to the welfare of the general public, viz. :-
1. Household or Domestic Sanitary Worka.

COMPRISING -
L Drainage. 5. Warming.
2. Ventilation of Drains. 6. Lighting.
3. Water !Slipply, 7. Disinfection.

Ater Supply.
4. General Ventil ttion.
(This head will include Sanitary arrangements for
railways, banks, and public buildings ; also for large
establishments, estates, government offices, kc.)
2. General or Public Sanitary Works.

CUM
1. Sewerage. . (d) Storage of Water.
(a) Disposal of Sewage I (e) Quality of Water.
(b) Plans for Man'a Construction of Public
Drainage. , Rath+ & Wash-houses.
2. Water Supply. 14. Public provision for
(a) Schemes for pm- I disinfecting Clothes,
viding Water sup- Houses , Vehicles,
ply to towns, Sewers, ite.
villages,or holism. 5. Provision for Public
(b) Alteration of pre- Mortuaries.
sent mode of sup- G. Provision for Disposal
ply, e.g., from of the Dead,
intermitting to 7. Removal and Disooell
constant, of Refuse from Town*,
(c) Augmentation or : ac., not being Sewage.
Ecs ~,,, my of pre-
sent supply.
3. To alvise and assist in the development of good
Sanitary Inventions, and in 'pedal cases I. obtain
exclusive rights in them, for the purposes of the
Assoriati.m. •

Public health is. in the opinion not only of leading
statesmen and istliticians, lett also in that of all
educated men, one of the first and greatest questions
of the day. Everywhere the urgent need for sanitary
improvements is seen and :wknowletlged Scientific
search ba. the catises of those alarming outbreaks of
preventible ilinen's which sometimes desolate towns
and villages always reveals a revolting state of things
as regards sanitary arr.angentents. Inquiry into the
origin and oprcail of epidemic diseases clearly proves
them to be the outcome of bail AII.I reMedij,‘l,l, amdi.
Uol)+6, such as pollution of the find necessaries f exist-
cure--air. water, food. Could the appalling nature of
these facts be laid before the public. with the amount
of mortality arising Irons preventible disc:tam some
adequate remedy would be imperiously demanded.
Preventible diseases, hitherto, have crept upon us
stealthily and silently, sweeping away multitudes, and
leaving still vaster numbers to linger on with health
shattered and insufficient for either the duties or the
enjoyments of life, all of whom, bad the great f..cts of
sanitary science been observed, might have escaped
The combined thought of phibuithropiete, statesmen,
and men of science—especially of the medical twofer'.
aim, whose daily experience has taught them the
urgency if the problem -applied to the study of such
diseases, has ranted military science to a high three
of efficiency; this Association proposes to offer facilities
for the practical application of sanitary science in Its
uhstt perfect form.
The Sanitary Worlut Association will secure the,
co-operation of the ablest scientific and practical
sanitarian* in each department, and be prepared to
offer help to loniseliolders, public boards, kc., tonl, i.e
upon and see to the prper carrying out 14 all kiwis of
sanitary work, from household sanitation to large
scholium for the sewerage or water supply f towns and
cities. It is believed that its services will hu in great
denrmil to supply skilled 311% ioe in difficulties of venti-
lation, drainage, water supply, lighting, warming, &e.
It is felt that works AO vitally important should not lie
entrusted to incompetent persons. This Association
will provide for the public scientific knowledge, based
on wide experience to guide them in all that pertain*
to household and general sanitation, and will thus
meet a real want. . .

The Directors believe the time opportune to ensure
the someas of an undertaking of this kiwi, and that it
will prove highly remunerative to the shareholders.
An mreement dated the 2nd day of December.lB7l,
and made between Charles Hight, of the one part, and
Edward Howard, for and on behalf of the Association
of the other part, has been entered into.
Forms of Application and Prummetuses may be
obtained of the :4ecretary, at the temporary offices of
the Association, 26, Badge-row, Cannon-street, E.C.,
where the Articles of Association and Agreement may
be seen.