Add to ORKGThe ‘condition ’ of the people-physically, socially and morally-was in-creasingly a cause for concern in urban Britain during the first half of the nineteenth 1 century. Disease epidemics, continual poor health and general squalor, awakened many to the negative consequences of urbanisation and industrialisation.2 This led to a wide ranging debate about public health and social order. The fear amongst middle class social reformers was that the plight of the urban poor would lead to a breakdown in social order. Social order, it was believed, could be maintained and improved only by educating the working classes into middle class social habits and values. The habit of personal cleanliness was believed to be an indicator of good social behaviou...
(print) vii, 194 p. ; 23. cmAcknowledgments p. vii -- Introduction p. 1 -- Section I : Citizenship a...
The Stuff of Life is an accessible, well-researched guide to how environmental improvements – to foo...
The Stuff of Life is an accessible, well-researched guide to how environmental improvements – to foo...
The Association was an important lobby group which sup-ported the sanitary reforms which culminated ...
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The rapid progress which occurred in the sphere of industry in England in the second half of the 18t...
In the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, sanitarians and reforme...
The recent revival of interest in the potential of preventive medicine, reflected in its re-emergenc...
The patient has been much neglected by medical historians: most medical history has been compiled by...
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The present study examines the problems which the London medical officers of health encountered in p...
The major objective of this thesis is to throw new light on the problem of "how" and "why" the funct...
In early Victorian England, a coalition of men of Government and the local community established a...
The Beginning of Formal-Legal Activities in Favor of Public Health Protection in the 19th Century En...
The rise in population together with industrialisation in the first half of the nineteenth century p...
(print) vii, 194 p. ; 23. cmAcknowledgments p. vii -- Introduction p. 1 -- Section I : Citizenship a...
The Stuff of Life is an accessible, well-researched guide to how environmental improvements – to foo...
The Stuff of Life is an accessible, well-researched guide to how environmental improvements – to foo...
The Association was an important lobby group which sup-ported the sanitary reforms which culminated ...
British cities of the mid-nineteenth century were insanitary. In many cases lack of street paving, ...
The rapid progress which occurred in the sphere of industry in England in the second half of the 18t...
In the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, sanitarians and reforme...
The recent revival of interest in the potential of preventive medicine, reflected in its re-emergenc...
The patient has been much neglected by medical historians: most medical history has been compiled by...
This is an historical review of the drivers behind the slow development of safe water and sanitation...
The present study examines the problems which the London medical officers of health encountered in p...
The major objective of this thesis is to throw new light on the problem of "how" and "why" the funct...
In early Victorian England, a coalition of men of Government and the local community established a...
The Beginning of Formal-Legal Activities in Favor of Public Health Protection in the 19th Century En...
The rise in population together with industrialisation in the first half of the nineteenth century p...
(print) vii, 194 p. ; 23. cmAcknowledgments p. vii -- Introduction p. 1 -- Section I : Citizenship a...
The Stuff of Life is an accessible, well-researched guide to how environmental improvements – to foo...
The Stuff of Life is an accessible, well-researched guide to how environmental improvements – to foo...