ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|43 pages
Disease and Sanitary Causes
part |16 pages
Early Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Causes of Diseases
part |11 pages
Re-Evaluating Miasma Theory Mid-Century
part II|181 pages
The Emergence of Public Health
part |31 pages
The Public Health in Greater London
part III|77 pages
The Extension of Sanitary Reform and Governing Bodies
part |28 pages
Sanitary Conditions in Bombay in the 1860s