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Sanitary Change in Rural Northern Ireland, 1874-1945

SANITARY CHANGE in rural Ireland has received little attention from historians or environmental scientists. Patrick (1986) presented a detailed study showing how sanitary developments in the immediate catchment of Lough Erne, north-west Ireland, affected the water quality of the lake. It was determined that outside of the larger towns sanitary progress was exceptionally slow until at least the 1950s. The retardation of sanitary provision in the region in 1944 is illustrated by the data in Table 1. This paper draws on that study to examine the potential for and constraints upon sanitary change in rural Northern Ireland during the period 1874-1945.