Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part I

Part I Volume 1: Medicine and Sanitary Science General Introduction Disease and Sanitary Causes Early-Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Causes of Diseases: Charles MacLean, Results of an Investigation, Respecting Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases (1817); Charles MacLean, Remarks on the British Quarantine Laws, and the So-Called Sanitary Laws of the Continental Nations of Europe (1823); William MacMichael, A Brief Sketch of the Progress of Opinion upon the Subject of Contagion; With Some Remarks on Quarantine (1825); Willam Baly and William W Gull, Report on the Nature and Import of Certain Microscopic Bodies Found in the Intestinal Discharges of Cholera (1849). Re-evaluating Miasma Theory Mid-Century: Report on the Cholera Outbreak in the Parish of St James, Westminster, During the Autumn of 1854 (1855); William Sedgwick Saunders, Report to the Board of Guardians of the City of London Union, and to the Special Committee Appointed under the Direction of the Privy Council, On the Causes and Prevention of Cholera (1866) The Emergence of Public Health Cholera Returns in Great Britain (1832); Health of London Association, Report of the Committee to the members of the Association, and the Public, on Sanitary Improvements (1847); John Simon, Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City of London, For the Year 1848-9 (1849); Dr Sutherland's Report on the Outbreak of Cholera, in the Workhouse of the Taunton Union; and the Reply of the Board of Guardians (1849). The Public Health in Greater London: John Sutherland, General Board of Health. Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Epidemic Districts in the United Parishes of St Giles and St George Bloomsbury (1852); William Farr, Report on the Mortality of Cholera in England, 1848-49 (1852); Richard D Grainger, On the Public Health: Being the Introductory Address Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Session of the Queen's College, Birmingham (1855) The Extension of Sanitary Reform and Governing Bodies Kenneth Mackinnon, A Treatise on the Public Health, Climate, Hygeine, and Prevailing Diseases, of Bengal and the North-West Provinces (1848); William J Moore, Health in the Tropics; or Sanitary Art Applied to Europeans in India (1862). Sanitary Conditions in Bombay in the 1860s: Andrew H Leith, Report on the General Sanitary Condition of the Bombay Army (1864); Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for the Government of Bombay (1865); Edward Lugard, Instructions to Commanding, Medical, and Other Officers of the Army (1866) Volume 2: Sanitary Reform in the Provinces A Gentleman of the Temple, Public Nuisance considered under the Several Heads of Bad Pavements, Butchers Infesting the Streets, the Inconveniences to the Publick, occasioned by the Present Method of Billitting the Foot-Guards, and the Insolence of Household Servants, with some Hints towards Remedy and Amendment (1754); Joseph Ritson, A Digest of the Proceedings of the Court Leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy, Parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the County of Middlesex, from the Year 1682 to the Present Time (1789); Miss Horner, Extract from and Account of a Contagious Fever at Kingston upon Hull. Report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1805); T C Speer, Medical Report containing an Inquiry into the Cause and Character of the Diseases of the Lower Orders in Dublin (1822); Andrew Buchanan, 'Report of the Diseases which Prevailed among the Poor of Glasgow, during the summer of 1830', Glasgow Medical Journal (1830); [Robert Forsythe], Foul Burn Agitation! Statement explaining the Nature and History of the Agricultural Irrigation near Edinburgh (1840); D J Corrigan, On Famine and Fever as Cause and Effect in Ireland (1846); Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, First and Second Reports of the Committee appointed to Consider any Bills that may be brought into Parliament for the Improvement of the Health of Towns, and the Applicability of such Measures to Scotland (1849-9); William Baker, On the Sanitary Condition of Derby (1842); Charles Barham, On the Sanitary State of Truro (1842); S Scott Alison, On the Sanitary Condition and General Economy of the Town of Tranent (1842); P H Holland, Report of P H Holland on Social conditions in Merthyr (1853); Alfred A Dickens, Public Health Act (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63.) Report to the General Board of Health on a Preliminary Inquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Brixham (1854); Health of Towns Association, Report of the Sub-Committee on the Answers Returned to Questions Addressed to the Principal Towns of England and Wales, and on the Objections from Corporate Bodies to the Public Health Bill (1848); Public Health Act (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63.), Statements and Observations in Relation to 'The Report of William Lee, esq. CE to the General Board of Health on a preliminary Enquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and the Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of the City of Ely in the County of Cambridge' (1850); Anti-Centralization Union, Public Health Bill; and Nuisances Removal Bill, 1855 (1855); E C Potter, The Pollution of Rivers: by a Polluter. A Letter to the Rt Hon G Sclater-Booth, President of the Local Government Board (1875); [James Newlands], Report to the Health Committee of the Borough of Liverpool on the Sewerage and other Works, under the Sanitary Act by the Borough Engineer (1848); Richard Reynolds Rowe, Report upon the Sewage Works of some Towns in England, Recently Visited (1869); Borough of Barnsley, County of York, Report to the Members of the Town Council of Barnsley by the Committee appointed to visit Localities where Sewage Works are in Operation (1874); George Ferme, Local Board Sewage Farming. A Letter to Clare Sewall Read, esq, MP (1876); [T F Kennedy], Papers [and Additional Papers] relating to the Disposal of Sewage from Houses in the Country, the Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers, and the Unsatisfactory Action of the Local Authority (1878); T J Nelson, An Incredible Story, told in a letter, to the Rt Hon Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister (1879); John Struthers, On The Purification and Improvement of the River Clyde (1891); H E Roscoe, Mersey and Irwell Joint Board, Preliminary Report (1892) Volume 3: Sanitary Engineering Sewerage of Towns Thomas Davis, Sewage or Drainage Considered in Connexion with Cholera and the General Health and Improvement of the Metropolis (1832); Court of Sewers for Westminster, and Part of the County of Middlesex, Address upon the Report from the Poor Law Commissioners (1842). London, Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, Reports and Other Documents Issued by the Commission from February 1848 to March 1856 (1848-9): Proceedings with Respect to the Ordnance Survey, Report of Mr Austin, Consulting Engineer, Read at the Meeting of the General Purposes Committee (March 1848); Regulations for Cleansing Cesspools: Together with Suggestions for Facilitating Public or Private Efforts for Sanitary Purposes, Report of Lewis C Hertslet, Order Clerk (August 1848); Preliminary Report on the Drainage of the Metropolis, Report of John Phillips, Chief Surveyor (July 1849). Henry Morley, 'A Foe under Foot', Household Words (1852); The Sanitary Inquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage and Water Supply, of the University and City of Oxford (1851); Report of the Winchester Sewerage Enquiry Committee (1866); George Greaves, Our Sewer Rivers (1866); [J W Bazalgette], Report by the Engineer Relative to the Requirements which the Main Drainage Is, and Is Not, Intended to Answer (1871) Water Supply Frederick S Peppercorne, Supply of Water to the Metropolis (1840); Thoughts on Popular Subjects. No. 1. Supply of Water to the Metropolis (1849). Glasgow's Water Supply: Lewis D B Gordon, To the Honorable the Lord Provost, the Magistrates and Town Council, and to the Water-Rate Payers of the City of Glasgow (1853); 'The Glasgow Loch Katrine Water Scheme', Glasgow Herald (1854); James Mansergh, The Thirlmere Water Shceme of the Manchester Corporation, with a few Remarks on the Longendale Works, and Water-Supply Generally (1878); The London Water Supply; Being an Examination of the Alleged Advantages of the Schemes of the Metropolitan Board of Works and of the Inevitable Increase of Rates which Would Be Required Thereby (1878) Consequences, Alternatives, Experimentation George Coode, Unpolluted Streams: A Letter to Lord John Manners (1858); G Rochfort Clarke, The Reform of Sewers. Where Shall We Bathe? What Shall We Drink? Or, Manure Wasted and Land Starved (1860); Sanitary Siftings, or Results of Sewage Systems Compared. By a Naval Officer (1868); Henry W Acland, The Relation of Modern Engineering to Public Health and Local Government (1876); Henry Robinson, Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 21st March, 1879. Paper on Sewage Disposal (1879); Metropolitan Board of Works, Extract from Report of Works and General Purposes Committee, on the Treatment of the Metropolitan Sewage by Precipitation and Deodorization (1886)