30.     Standidge and Co.                                                                1845

 


During the 1830s and 1840s a lot of time and effort was spent reflecting the sanitary conditions of the fast-expanding towns and cities and various reports were drawn up for the House of Commons on health issues. The cholera outbreaks in the early 1830s stirred action. In 1842, for example, a Select Committee paid particular attention to examining whether or not it was desirable from a public health viewpoint that cemeteries in large towns should be allowed to remain open. The committee’s report agreed with the view of the majority of the witnesses that the city cemeteries were overcrowded and a positive danger to health. The report urged that no new cemeteries should be opened within large towns. In a further report of 1845 Thomas Shapter (see also 32) wrote a chapter, accompanied by a plan, to illustrate the report on Exeter in the Health of Towns[1]. 

Title: Plans & Sections of the City and Suburbs of EXETER, Showing the Sewerage, the Division of the City into Sanatory Districts, &c.

Size: 295 x 477 mm but no scale.

Imprints:   Health of Towns Inquiry (top right, above border) and 8voEd. (top right) and 64/ Standidge & Co. Litho London (bottom right). 

The area shown is from St. David's to the Workhouse and Colleton Crescent to the County Gaol and including the lines of sewers such as The Long Brook and The Barn Field Brook Sewers.. The plan shows some principal buildings: the Cathedral, main churches, the hospitals as well as burial grounds and the water reservoir. Two sections cross the town: horizontally at a scale of 5000 ft = 94 mm; and vertically at 400 ft = 63 mm. Conduit sources (bottom left) are shown. Heights are noted on roads.

Black and white copy. Both illustrations reproduced by kind permission of Devon Archives & Local Studies (OM B/EXE/1845/SHA).


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[1] Pages 205-266 entitled Report on the Sanatory Condition of Exeter by Thomas Shapter MD, published in London by William Clowes and Sons for HMSO.

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