MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SANITARY ASSOCIATION

1 MINUTES

2/1-7 REPORTS OF VISITING COMMITTEES

1. Ancoats District

2. Chorlton District

3. Deansgate District

4. London Rd. District

5. Oldham St. District

6. Rochdale Rd. District

7. Salford District

3/1-2 PLANS OF DISTRICTS

4 VISITORS' BOOK

5 SCRAPBOOK

6 AFFILIATED SOCIETIES.

6/1. Noxious Vapours Abatement Association.

<span class="wrapper"><p>Printed Material on the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association also in the Library</p> <p>Annual Reports, 1853-80, 1882-94, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900.</p> <p>614.06 M1</p> <p>An Enquiry Into Causes of Excessive Mortality in No. 1 District, Ancoats, by John C. Thresh, 1889.</p> <p>614.0942 M2</p> <p>Health Lectures For The People, 1875-1888.</p> <p>613.04 H1</p> <p>House Construction and Sanitation. Illustrations to Dr. Vacher's lecture on "Plans and Sections", 1885 - shows brick and stone cottages in Coombe, Dublin, brick house, Goldsmidt St., Manchester, tenement houses in Holt Town, Manchester, Cartwright St., London and in New York.</p> <p>614.094273 Ma1</p> <p>Report on Health of Manchester and Salford in the Last Fifteen Years, by A. Ransom and Wm. Royston, 1867.</p> <p>614.0942 M19</p> <p>Tracts 614.0942 M20</p> <p>Proceedings in Respect to Clauses in the Manchester Corporation Waterworks Bill, 1858, Intended to Discountenance the use of Waterclosets, 1858.</p> <p>H302/18</p> <p>P1859/7</p> <p>Manchester Children's Holiday Fund, annual reports, 1890 and 1898</p> <p>361 M41</p></span>

The following plans, visitors' book and scrapbook came into the Library in Aug. 1881, and the minutes and visitors' reports were given by Evan Roberts, jun.; a member of the Association, in Dec 1929.

The Association was founded in 1852 "to promote attention to Temperance, Personal and Domestic Cleanliness and to the Laws of Health generally" and "to induce general co-operation with the Boards of Health and other constituted authorities in giving effect to official Regulations for Sanitary Improvement". Manchester and Salford were divided into seven districts - Deansgate, London Road, Ancoats, Oldham Street, Rochdale Road, Chorlton and Salford - and committees of visitors appointed to make personal investigation of the sanitary conditions in the houses, courts and streets of their district. Committees of affiliated societies were also formed - Ladies Branch (till 1879 the Ladies Sanitary Reform Association), the Noxious Vapours Abatement Association, Committee for Securing Open Spaces for Recreation, Children's Holiday Fund and the Cheap Meals Committee. The Association continued till 1934 concerning itself with all matters relating to health and sanitation, including the provision of public parks, sanatoriums for tuberculosis sufferers, pollution of the air and rivers, the care of the mentally ill, and the use of poisons in the home.