Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II

'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

Barbara Leckie

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 (187