Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick

Britain, 1800-1854

by Christopher Hamlin

1998 368 pages eng

"The 1830s and 1840s are the formative years of modern public health in Britain, when the poor law bureaucrat Edwin Chadwick conceived his vision of public health through public works and began the campaign for the construction of the kinds of water and sewerage works that ultimately became standard…