1st Edition
Health, Wealth and Population in the Early Days of the Industrial Revolution
First Published in 2005.It is the primary object of this study to endeavour to elucidate the main causes of the rapid growth of population in England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with special reference to the period 1750–1815. This enquiry is narrow in time and place but deals with the time and place in which the rapid growth of population had its origin. In pursuit of the main subject of this enquiry certain aspects of the period, previously often ignored, have been brought, into clearer perspective.
1. Introduction
2. Vital statistics
3. Population statistics, birth and death rates
4. Individualism and Laissez-faire
5. The growth of commerce
6. Agriculture
7. Improvement of towns
8. Water supply and drainage
9. The 18th century doctor and the British pioneers of public health
10. The hospital and dispensary movement
11. General hygiene and midwifery
12. Rickets and scurvy
13. Antiseptics, segregation, leprosy and plague
14. Smallpox in the 18th century
15. The anti-Typhus campaign and the Fever Hospital Movement
16. malaria - general summary
17. The period 1815-1848
18. Conclusion
Biography
M.C. Buer
