The Insanitary Hebrides: deplorable condition of Lewis

The Insanitary Hebrides: the deplorable condition of the Lews (Isle of Lewis). An almost incredible state of insanitation has been revealed during the Medical Officer's inspection of dwellings in the Island of Lewis. Groups of hovels have been condemned as traps of enteric fever (i.e. typhoid). 1. How the drainage of one croft falls into the land of another: houses on a hillside in Bragar, parish of Barvas. 2. a manure heap at the door: a pauper's house in Bragar. 3. catching the surface drainage of a road: hovels built on a slope and on the low side of the road at Leurbost, parish of Lochs. 4. a death-trap of disease: houses contaminated by a stream (used for drinking and washing) flowing past typhoid-infected dwellings further up

Condemned Contaminated Croft Crofts Deplorable Drainage Dwelling Dwellings Fever Heap Hebrides Hillside Hovel Hovels Incredible Insanitary Lochs Manure Paupers Remote Typhoid

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