Public health in the saorstate

Public health in the saorstate

7 Nov 1931

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So early as the year 1492 a Sanitary Act was passed relating to the two rivers at Dublin called the Poddle, which were filled and stepped “as well by the inhabitants of houses … as dung of beasts, the great hurt and damage of the dean, chapter and college.”.

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