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
26. Extract from the report of Mr. John L. Kennedy,
barrister-at-law, to the Commissioners for inquiring into
the Labour of Young Persons in Mines and Manufactories 445
27. Tables of Sickness in prisons 449
28. Tables of Sickness in the wynds of Edinburgh 452
29. Suggested form of notification to owners or occupiers, for
the distribution of the expense of permanent alterations
and the avoidance of overcharges on persons enjoying only
portions of the benefit 453
30. Extracts from evidence as to the moral and physical evils
that may be created by defective arrangements for hiring
and paying workpeople 454
LIST OF PLATES.
Map, exhibiting the track of fever and cholera, and the
badly-cleansed portions of the town of Leeds 160
Map, exhibiting the numbers and places of death from epidemic and
other diseases affected by locality, in the parish of Bethnal
Green, during one year 160
Linear representation of the comparative numbers and progress of
deaths from consumption, from epidemics, and other classes of
disease, in the metropolis, during the two years ended the 1st of
January, 1842 167
Plans and views of habitations for the labouring classes 266
Group of Northumberland cottages, copied from a view given by Dr.
Gilly, canon of Durham;—Group of cottages at Harlaxton, erected
by Gregory Gregory, Esq.;—Plans and elevations of cottages,
erected by the Rev. Benyon de Beauvoir, at Culford,
Suffolk;—Plans of labourers’ cottages, erected by the Earl of
Leicester, at Holkham; by the Earl of Roseberry in Scotland;—Plan
of a new form of labourers’ cottages, erected by Sir Stewart
Monteath, at Closeburn;—Plan of labourers’ cottages, erected by
Messrs. H. and E. Ashworth, at Turton; by S. Greg, Esq., at
Bollington.
Plan, by Mr. Sydney Smirke, of lodging-houses for workmen in towns 274
Section of the chief forms of sewers used in the metropolis 378
Plan of the arrangement of the future increment of towns for the
protection of the sanitary condition and convenience of the
population, by Captain Vetch, of the Royal Engineers 384
General plan of house and street sewerage, and of the construction
of streets favourable to cleansing and dryness, by Captain Vetch 389
Isometrical view of a model agricultural labourer’s cottage, by Mr.
Loudon 396
Isometrical view of a mechanic’s model double cottage, by Mr.
Loudon 398
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