Author: Nigel Richardson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317313895 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
Explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study. This study compares the sanitary state of the community with others nearby, and Uppingham School with comparable schools of that era.
Author: Nigel Richardson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study. Uppingham is a small (and unusually well-documented) market town which contains a boarding school. Despite legal changes enforcing sanitary reform, the town was hit three times by typhoid in 1875–1876. Richardson examines the conduct of those involved in town and school, the economic dependence of the former on the latter, and the opposition to higher rates to pay for sanitary improvement by a local ratepayer "shopocracy." He compares the sanitary state of the community with others nearby, and Uppingham School with comparable schools of that era. Improvement was often determined by business considerations rather than medical judgments, and local personalities and events frequently drove national policy in practice. This study illuminates wider themes in Victorian public medicine, including the difficulty of diagnosing typhoid before breakthroughs in bacteriological research, the problems local officialdom faced in implementing reform, and the length of time it took London ideas and practice to filter into rural areas.
Author: Rosemary Wall Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317319184 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge.
Author: Donald Leinster-Mackay Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100062806X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 187
Book Description
This book, first published in 1987, attempts to take fresh stock of a man who made a great impact on nineteenth-century English Secondary Education. A quasi psycho-biographical approach is adopted from the beginning so that Thring, the man, is examined from the perspective of his paradoxes, personality and the pervasive influences on him. Specia
Author: Various Authors Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1315403013 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 3408
Book Description
This set of 14 volumes, originally published between 1932 and 1995, amalgamates several topics on the history of education between the years 1800 and 1926, including women and education, education and the working-class, and the history of universities in the United Kingdom. This set also includes titles that focus on key figures in education, such as Samuel Wilderspin, Georg Kerschensteiner and Edward Thring. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject and will be of particular interest to students of history, education and those undertaking teaching qualifications.
Author: Jacob Steere-Williams Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1648250025 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health
Author: Nigel Richardson
Author: Nigel Richardson
Author: Nigel Richardson
Author: George Edwin Waring (Jr.)
Author: George Edwin Waring
Author: George Edwin Waring
Author: Rosemary Wall
Author: Donald Leinster-Mackay
Author: Various Authors
Author: Jacob Steere-Williams