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feel themselves responsible for their appointment and co-operators in their work; Sanitary Inspectors who are not removable unless for neglect of duty, and certain to be removed if they do persistently neglect it.
We want a fully trained Nurse[1] for every district, and a Health Missioner. We want a Water-supply[2] to each village, pure and plentiful; Rain-water properly stored; Earth closets—Scavenging[2]: as necessary a public duty as paving and lighting; Gardens[2] near houses, and allotments where refuse and privy contents are used for manure[3]; Cottage-owners made amenable to sanitary laws, compelling the landlord to give his cottages the essentials for health as far as construction is concerned; School teaching of health rules, made interesting and clear by diagrams showing dangers of foul drains and so forth. [But we must not expect too much practical result from this. It has failed, except as a book or lesson, where it has been tried in India. The school-master himself should be a health apostle.] When our water is poisoned, we want to know it; then we shall avoid it. But it is far more difficult to get people to avoid poisoned air, for they drink it in by the gallon all night in their bedrooms, and too often in the day.
- ↑ This Nurse must have supervision, even if only periodical, from a trained Superintendent Nurse. If she is a Queen’s Jubilee Nurse, this is provided for. But the question of her assistant requires the most careful management. An untrained assistant, who afterwards may say she has been trained, is disastrous, and justly prohibited by some associations.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 By the Local Government Act, 1894, certain powers are conferred on the Parish Councils, thereby constituted, with regard to water-supply, sewers, and hiring of allotments.
- ↑ For uses of earth, see Dr. Poore’s "Rural Hygiene."
