About the Book
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. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.
Table of Contents:
Part II Volume 4: Sanitary Reform and Urban Improvement I: Redefining Urban Burial George Alfred Walker, Interment and Disinterment (1843); Public Health Act (11 & 12 Vict cap 63), Henry Austin and Robert Rawlinson, Report to the General Board of Health on 'the Circumstances Attending the Revolting Practices that have Been Said to Occur in the St. Giles's Cemetery, Situated in the Parish of St. Pancras' (1850); Richard Broun, Extramural Sepulture. Synopsis of the London Necropolis (1851); W H Hale, Intramural Burial in England not Injurious to the Public Health (1855) Burial in Glasgow: George Blair, 'Introductory Remarks' (1857); Kenneth M MacLeod, Report on the Burial Grounds in Glasgow (1876) William Hardwicke, Report by the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington (1867); William Robinson, Cremation and Urn-Burial, or the Cemeteries of the Future (1889) II: Preserving Green Space for a Healthy City John Moodie, Cemeteries, as Receptacles for the Dead (1848); Alexander MacKenzie, The Parks, Open Spaces and Thoroughfares of London (1869); Herbert Philips, Open Spaces for Recreation in Manchester (1883); Second Annual Report of the Metropolitan Public Garden, Boulevard, and Playground Association (1884); Percival Birkett, The Value of Open Spaces and Recreation Grounds in Thickly-Populated Districts ([1884]) III: Clearing the Slums, Improving the Streets Improvements in Glasgow: Charles Wilson, J T Rochead and John Herbertson, Report on the Sanitary Improvement of the City of Glasgow (1852); Notes of Personal Observations and Inquiries, in June, 1866, on the City Improvements of Paris (1866); James B Russell, On the Immediate Results of the Operations of the Glasgow Improvement Trust at Last May Term, As Regards the Inhabitants Displaced, with Remarks on the Question of Preventing the Recurrence of the Evils which the Trust Seeks to Remedy (1875); James Watson, Improvements in Glasgow and the City Improvement Acts (1879) [Joseph Charles Parkinson, 'Attila in London' (1866); Improving Away: Extracts from the Public Press, as to the Provision of Improved Dwellings ([1872]); Metropolitan Board of Works, Statement of the Works and Improvements Carried out by the Board in the Metropolis ([1883]); Charles A Cameron, On the Clearance of an Unhealthy Area, under the Provisions of the Public Health Act ([1887]) The Future of London Street Improvements: H L W Lawson, 'Street Improvements in London', pt 1 (1890); Alfred Waterhouse, 'Street Improvements in London', pt 2 (1890) Volume 5: Sanitary Reform, Class and the Victorian City I: Knowing and Inspecting the City Domestic Visiting and Advising: Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge, The Second Annual Report (1859); S R P [Miss Susan Rugeley Powers], Remarks on Women's Work in Sanitary Reform, 3rd edn (1862); Ladies' Sanitary Association, The Black Hole in Our Own Bed Rooms ([c.1860]). Sanitary inspection: Cosmo Innes and W K Burton, Sanitary Inspection of Dwelling Houses, with Special Reference to London Houses, 3rd edn (1880); Thomas Buckworth, Housing and Sanitary Inspection of the Dwellings of the Poor (1884); H Mansfield Robinson, 'Legal Hints on Sanitary Inspection', Journal of State Medicine (1893); Albert Taylor, The Sanitary Inspector's Handbook, 2nd edn (1897); J Spottiswoode Cameron, 'Women as Sanitary Inspectors', Journal of State Medicine (1902) II: Domesticity and Space Middle-Class Housing and Domestic Space: H H Collins, On the Ill-Construction and Want of Sanitary Provisions which Exist in the Dwellings of the Upper and Middle Classes, and Suggestions for Rectifying the Same (1875); William Young, Town and Country Mansions and Suburban Houses, with Notes on the Sanitary and Artistic Construction of Houses (1879). Common Lodging Houses: Howard J Goldsmid, Dottings of a Dosser, Being Revelations of the Inner Life of Low London Lodging Houses, 2nd edn (1886); James Burn Russell, 'Common Lodging Houses' ([1889]), in A K Chalmers (ed.), Public Health Administration in Glasgow (1905); 'London County Council Municipal Lodging House', Builder (1891); George Macconnachie, 'Common Lodging-Houses and their Bye-Laws', Sanitary Record (1897) III: Cleanliness and Respectability Public Baths and Washhouses: Baths and Wash-houses for the Labouring Classes, Statement of the Preliminary Measures Adopted for the Purpose of Promoting the Establishment of Baths and Wash-houses for the Labouring Classes (1845); Alfred Ebsworth, Facts and Inferences, Drawn from an Inspection of the Public Baths and Wash-Houses in this Metropolis (1853); 'Corporation Baths, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire', Builder (1870); 'Public Baths and Washhouses for the Parish of Paddington', Builder (1874); A Hessel Tiltman, 'Public Baths and Wash-Houses', Journal of State Medicine (1900). Turkish Bathing: Edward Haughton, The Uses and Abuses of the Turkish Bath (1861); 'Lennox' [Alfed Mellett Peirson], Turkish Baths: Their Relation to Health and the Senses (1898). The Ethics and Practice of Cleanliness: Erasmus Wilson, Healthy Skin, 5th edn (1855); H G Brooke, 'Washing and Bathing', in Health Lectures for the People Delivered in Manchester, 1883 & 1884: Volume VII (1884) Volume 6: End of Century Assessments and New Directions I: Architecture and Sanitary Reform: The Poor and the Middle Classes The Poor: Edward Smith, The Peasant's Home, 1760-1875 (1876); A Pair of Small Villas (1884); Henry W Acland, 'The Tale Told' and 'The Lesson Learnt', in Health in the Village (1884); John Allen, Practical Guide on 'Healthy Houses' and Sanitary Reform (1884); Edith A Barnett, A Healthy Home in One or Two Rooms (1888); George Vivian Poore, The Dwelling House (1898). Sanitary Law: Alice Ravenhill, The Housing of the People (1898); The Tenant's Sanitary Catechism (1896); Florence Stacpoole, A Healthy Home and How to Keep It (1905). The Middle Classes: William Barwell, What a House Should Be ([1873]); T Pridgen Teale, Dangers to Health (1878); A Sanitary Reformer, Cottages ([1879]); Official Guide to the International Health Exhibition (1884); Septimus Bedford, Popular Handbook of Sanitary Science (1884); [Lady Eliza Priestley], A Member of the National Health Society, A Desirable Residence ([1885]). The Peppermint and Smoke Test: Horace Frank Lester, Under Two Fig Trees (1886); Anon., 'How to Determine the Sanitary State of a House' (1892); Various Practical Writers, The Domestic House Planner (1891) II: Hygiene and Health Domestic Hygiene and Health: Mrs Mark Judge, 'Sanitary Reform', Sanitary Record (1879). Germ Theory and Domestic Health: Alfred Carpenter, 'Domestic Health', Transactions of the Brighton Health Congress, 1881 (1881); William Canfield, 'A Short Talk about Disease and Germs', Good Health (1892); J P Sandlands, Sanitation - Personal and Public: A Book for County, District, and Parish Councillors (1902). Social and Racial Hygiene: Samuel Sneade Brown, Notes on Sanitary Reform (1870); John Parkin, Sanitary Reform: Is it a Reality, or is it Not? (1875); Benjamin Ward Richardson, 'Salutland', Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain (1880); John Berry Haycraft , 'Is Preventive Medicine Causing Racial Degeneration?', Public Health (1894). Stirpiculture: Henry Seymour, The Physiology of Love (1878); Martin Luther Holbrook, Stirpiculture (1897)
Review :
'a highly valuable scholarly resource that touches on almost all the concerns of contemporary historians of nineteenth-century medicine. This collection does not merely make more widely available a few neglected primary resources; rather, it is successful in proposing a set of new research questions of critical importance to the field.' Social History of Medicine
