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[CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800-1890)]. Report ... from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain, London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1842. -- A Supplementary Report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns, London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1843. 2 volumes. 8° (215 x 130mm). Engraved and lithographed plates, some colour-printed, some folding. (Some marginal spotting to plates.) Original pebble-grained purple cloth (spines faded, extremities bumped). With Chadwick's Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture (London, 1843) and his Extracts from the Information Received by His Majesty's Commissioners, as to the Administration and Operation of the Poor-Laws (London, 1833).
FIRST EDITIONS. The reports exposed the appalling sanitary conditions in which the working classes were forced to live in the first half of the 19th century. Chadwick recognized they were a cause of disease and saw that effective drainage and better ventilation were the keys to improvement. Chadwick's proposals led to the Public Health Act of 1848, and his administrative reforms established the principles on which subsequent public health administration was based. Norman 434; Garrison & Morton 1608. (4)
FIRST EDITIONS. The reports exposed the appalling sanitary conditions in which the working classes were forced to live in the first half of the 19th century. Chadwick recognized they were a cause of disease and saw that effective drainage and better ventilation were the keys to improvement. Chadwick's proposals led to the Public Health Act of 1848, and his administrative reforms established the principles on which subsequent public health administration was based. Norman 434; Garrison & Morton 1608. (4)
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