Editing Fleeming Jenkin (section)

===Sanitary protection associations===
In 1878 Jenkin made a contribution to [[public health]] with his pamphlet ''Healthy Houses''.<ref>F. Jenkin (1878) [https://archive.org/details/healthyhouses00jenkgoog Healthy Houses]</ref> "This was not a completely new interest, for sewerage systems were part of the degree course which he taught, and he had already contributed on the subject to the ''Sanitary Record''."<ref name=Cookson/>{{rp|165}}

The suggestion was made by [[William Fairbairn]] that house inspection by an association of competent individuals would protect homeowners from incompetent tradesmen and outline clearly work necessary for sanitary protection. Jenkin noted, "In respect of Domestic Sanitation the business of Engineer and that of the medical man overlap." With the assent of [[Robert Christison]], the concept took hold in Edinburgh and Saint Andrews, then in Newport, USA. The report by Alexander Fergusson<ref>Alexander Fergusson (1887) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ee4aAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR159 Note on the Work of Fleeming Jenkin in connection with Sanitary Reform], page clix, ''Papers Literary, Scientific, &c of Fleeming Jenkin''</ref> noted two associations in London in 1882, and sixteen globally.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qHQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA176 The Sanitary Record, March 18, 1878]</ref><ref>Ian H. Adams (1978) [https://books.google.com/books?id=GqquAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 The Making of Urban Scotland]</ref>

"Jenkin acted as [[consulting engineer]] to the association without pay, rather, as he explained it, like a hospital for the poor where a leading physician would give his services free. ... [The Sanitary Protection Association] was simple, pragmatic, popular – within a few months, there were five hundred subscribers in Edinburgh, and similar groups quickly formed in other British cities ..."<ref name=Cookson/>{{rp|165}}