A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns.

Name: A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns.
Author: Edwin Chadwick

by Edwin Chadwick

EN·~16 hours

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Description

At head of title: Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain.

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Duration

~16 hours (924K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-05-02

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Working class -- Great Britain Burial Mortality -- Statistics Public health -- Great Britain Cemeteries -- Great Britain

About the author

Edwin Chadwick

1800–1890

A driving force behind 19th-century public health reform, he argued that clean water, drainage, and better sanitation could save lives on a massive scale. His ideas helped reshape how modern cities think about health and government responsibility.

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