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Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary international perspective.
Contents
Introduction, Public Nusance considered under the Several Heads of Bad Pavements, Butchers Infesting the Streets, the Inconveniences to the Publick, occasioned by the Present Method of Billitting the Foot-Guards, and the Insolence of Household Servants, with some Hints towards Remedy and Amendment (1754), A Digest of the Proceedings of the Court Leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy, Parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the County of Middlesex, from the Year 1682 to the Present Time (1789), Extract from and Account of a Contagious Fever at Kingston upon Hull. Report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1805), Medical Report containing an Inquiry into the Cause and Character of the Diseases of the Lower Orders in Dublin (1822), 'Report of the Diseases which Prevailed among the Poor of Glasgow, during the Summer of 1830', Glasgow Medical Journal (1830), Foul Burn Agitation! Statement explaining the Nature and History of the Agricultural Irrigation near Edinburgh (1840), On Famine and Fever as Cause and Effect in Ireland (1846), First and Second Reports of the Committee appointed to Consider any Bills that may be brought into Parliament for the Improvement of the Health of Towns, and the Applicability of such Measures to Scotland (1848-9), On the Sanitary Condition of Derby (1842), On the Sanitary State of Truro (1842), On the Sanitary Condition and General Economy of the Town of Tranent (1842), Report of P. H. Holland on Social Conditions in Merthyr (1853), Public Health Act (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63.) Report to the General Board of Health on a Preliminary Inquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and the Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Brixham (1854), Report of the Sub-Committee on the Answers Returned to Questions Addressed to the Principal Towns of England and Wales, and on the Objections fr om Corporate Bodies to the Public Health Bill (1848), Statements and Observations in Relation to 'The Report of William Lee, esq. C.E. to the General Board of Health on a preliminary Enquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and the Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of the City of Ely in the County of Cambridge' (1850), Public Health Bill; and Nuisances Removal Bill, 1855 (1855), The Pollution of Rivers: by a Polluter. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. G. Sclater-Booth, President of the Local Government Board (1875), Report to the Health Committee of the Borough of Liverpool on the Sewerage and other Works, under the Sanitary Act by the Borough Engineer (1848), Report upon the Sewage Works of some Towns in England, Recently Visited (1869), Report to the Members of the Town Council of Barnsley by the Committee appointed to visit Localities where Sewage Works are in (1874), Local Board Sewage Farming. A Letter to Clare Sewall Read, esq, M.P (1876), Papers [and Additional Papers] relating to the Disposal of Sewage from Houses in the Country, the Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers, and the Unsatisfactory Action of the Local Authority (1878), An Incredible Story, told in a letter to the Rt. Hon. Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister (1879), On The Purification and Improvement Of The River Clyde (1891), Preliminary Report (1892), Editorial Notes
