ABSTRACT
The nineteenth century was the age of Britain’s bureaucratic revolution. Although public administrative employment remained modest compared to some other sectors in absolute terms, for example, being only about one-third the size of transport or agriculture, the rate of growth was rapid. As the sanitary strategy developed from mid-century into areas of one municipal trading in gas, water and tramway operation, as well as into the cultural agenda associated with libraries, galleries and museums, and ultimately into housing and town planning the municipal payroll expanded accordingly.2
