574 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
574 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
574 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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First published in 1952, this is a full-scale and definitive account of the life and work of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Among the sources used are the Chadwick Papers, the Peel, Place, Russell and Gladstone Papers, the Home Office, Treasury and Ministry of Health papers and the minutes and documents of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. Centred on this mass of material, this book demonstrates that... Read more
Book One: A Young Man and a Great Radical; Book Two: Barrister into Civil Servant; Book Three: The Domestic Fiend of Somerset House; Book Four: The People and the New Poor Law; Book Five: The People and the New Poor Law; Book Six: Andover; Book Seven: The Triumph of the Public Health Movement; Book Eight: The Cholera; Book Nine: The Struggle for London; Book Ten: The Struggle for the Provinces; Book Eleven: The Third Career of Edwin Chadwick; Illustrations
Biography
S. E. Finer
