A MANUAL OF HYGIENE, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, AND COMPENDIUM OF SANITARY LAWS; FOR THE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH Hon. Member California Medical Society, New York Agricultural_ SALUS POPULI SUPREMA EST LEX. WITH THIRTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS DUBLIN: HODGES, FOSTER, & CO., GRAFTON-STREET. LONDON: BAILLIÈRE, TINDALL, & COX. 1874. ΤΟ SIR ALFRED POWER, K.C.B., VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD OF IRELAND, Dedicate this Work, AS A TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION TO THE STATESMANLIKE QUALITIES, SOUND JUDGMENT, AND ENLIGHTENED LIBERALITY EXHIBITED IN HIS SUPREME ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAWS FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR, AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 654 PREFACE. THIS work is not offered to the reader as a complete treatise on sanitary science and political medicine; but it contains information in relation to public hygiene sufficient for the requirements of the majority of health officers. I venture to hope that in its pages the non-professional reader will find all that he requires to know relative to such subjects as the heating and ventilation of dwellings, the disposal of house refuse, and diet, clothing, and exercise. The work includes 34 Statutes, or parts of them, relating to public health; and these I trust will be found convenient for reference to all engaged in the administration of the sanitary laws. I have not given the Acts relating to factories, merchant ships, and vaccination. If I had done so the work would have been rendered unnecessarily bulky ; besides the persons concerned with these Acts are certain to be provided with copies of them. This book having been written for the use of both professional and non-professional persons, portions of it will to the former, appear trite; to the latter, too scientific. This was foreseen, but could not be avoided. Dublin, 15, Pembroke-road, |