Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With AppendicesChadwick, Edwin
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With Appendices
Chadwick, Edwin
Housing -- Great Britain; Public health -- Great Britain
From the reports transmitted to us by our Assistant Commissioners we
subjoin a report from Mr. Gilbert on the sanitary condition of the
labouring population in Devon and Cornwall: the reports from Mr. Mott
and Mr. Power with relation to the sanitary condition of the population
of Manchester and the adjacent manufacturing districts, which will be
found to be corroborative of the reports of Dr. Baron Howard and Dr.
Duncan: one from Mr. Twisleton with relation to the sanitary condition
of the population of Norfolk and Suffolk: one from Mr. Tufnell with
relation to the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Kent
and Sussex: a report from Mr. Parker on the sanitary state of the
labouring population in the counties of Berks, Bucks, and Oxford: one
from Mr. Weale on cottage accommodation in the counties of Bedford,
Northampton, and Stafford,—a report from Mr. Senior on the sanitary
condition of the labouring population in the counties of Leicester,
Lincoln, Nottingham, and Rutland: one from Sir Edmund Head on the
dwellings of the labouring classes, and on the means of procuring better
cottage accommodation in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth,
Salop, Worcester, Brecknock, and Radnor; three reports from Sir John
Walsham on the condition of the dwellings of the labouring population in
Durham, Northumberland, Westmoreland, and Cumberland; and a
communication from Mr. Day on the cost of erection, repairs, and rents
of labourers’ cottages in Salop, Cheshire, and North Wales.
We have likewise received several valuable reports upon towns and
districts in England from medical men resident upon the spot.
We have obtained a report from Mr. Hodgson and a committee of medical
gentlemen of Birmingham on the sanitary condition of the labouring
population in that town.
We also append a report on the sanitary condition of the dwellings of
the labouring classes, &c., in Manchester, which we have obtained from
Dr. Baron Howard, physician to the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary of
that town:
Also, one on the condition of the labouring population in Liverpool,
from Dr. Duncan.
One on the condition of the labouring population in Derby, from Dr.
Baker.
One on the condition of the labouring population of Truro, from Dr.
Barham.
One on the condition of the labouring population of Brighton, from Dr.
Jenks.
One on the sanitary condition of the labouring population in the town
of Wolverhampton, by Dr. Dehane.
One on the prevalence of fever in the parish of Breadsall, Derbyshire,
by Dr. Kennedy and Mr. Senior.
One on the sanitary state of the town of Stafford, by Dr. Edward
Knight.
One on an improved description of cottage tenements for the labouring
classes, by Mr. Edmund Ashworth.
One on the sanitary condition of the town of Lancaster, Dr. de Vitrié.
One on the sanitary condition of the town of Leeds, by Mr. Robert
Baker.
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