The health of nations :
a review of the works of Edwin Chadwick /
with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Longmans, Green,
1887.
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| Notes: | Physical description: 2 v. : port ; 22 cm. |
Table of Contents:
I. Edwin Chadwick, C.B.,-a biographical dissertation. Introductory note. Pt. I. Political and economical: Practice and progress ; Value of Life ; Sickness amongst the masses ; Dietaries, sickness, and mortalities ; Registration of births, marriages and deaths ; Taxes on knowledge ; Intemperance ; Statemanship as a science ; Competitive national economy. Pt. II. Educational and social: Education as the corrector of crime ; Half-time system in education ; Physiological ; Psychological limits of mental labour ; Education and drill ; Education for military service ; for the agricultural classes ; School children of London ; Physical training for trades unionists ; Economics of education ; Failures in national education ; Stick or no stick ; The intractable child ; Construction of schools ; Competitive examinations ; Pensions to teachers ; Summaries of educational efforts ; Ideal projects towards social unities.
II. Introductory note. Pt. I. Sanitary and preventive of disease: Condition of labouring classes ; Defects in sanitation ; Sewage ; Paving of streets ; Water ; Land Drainage ; Ventilation and work ; Overcrowding in houses ; Intemperance ; Comparative vitality in different classes ; Mortality and population ; Cost of noxious agencies and accidents ; Financial sanitation by representatives of labour ; Public walks ; Medical officers of health ; Common lodging-houses ; Sanitary summary ; Cemeteries ; Sanitary dwellings ; Town drainage ; Sewage and arboriculture ; Prevention of epidemics ; Health versus war. Pt. II. Prevention of pauperism and poverty: Poor law reform ; Summaries. Pt. III. Prevention of crime: Preventive police ; Prevention of robberies and murders for money ; Suppression of riots ; Police and extinction of fires ; Tricycles for police.
I. Edwin Chadwick, C.B.,-a biographical dissertation. Introductory note. Pt. I. Political and economical: Practice and progress ; Value of Life ; Sickness amongst the masses ; Dietaries, sickness, and mortalities ; Registration of births, marriages and deaths ; Taxes on knowledge ; Intemperance ; Statemanship as a science ; Competitive national economy. Pt. II. Educational and social: Education as the corrector of crime ; Half-time system in education ; Physiological ; Psychological limits of mental labour ; Education and drill ; Education for military service ; for the agricultural classes ; School children of London ; Physical training for trades unionists ; Economics of education ; Failures in national education ; Stick or no stick ; The intractable child ; Construction of schools ; Competitive examinations ; Pensions to teachers ; Summaries of educational efforts ; Ideal projects towards social unities.
II. Introductory note. Pt. I. Sanitary and preventive of disease: Condition of labouring classes ; Defects in sanitation ; Sewage ; Paving of streets ; Water ; Land Drainage ; Ventilation and work ; Overcrowding in houses ; Intemperance ; Comparative vitality in different classes ; Mortality and population ; Cost of noxious agencies and accidents ; Financial sanitation by representatives of labour ; Public walks ; Medical officers of health ; Common lodging-houses ; Sanitary summary ; Cemeteries ; Sanitary dwellings ; Town drainage ; Sewage and arboriculture ; Prevention of epidemics ; Health versus war. Pt. II. Prevention of pauperism and poverty: Poor law reform ; Summaries. Pt. III. Prevention of crime: Preventive police ; Prevention of robberies and murders for money ; Suppression of riots ; Police and extinction of fires ; Tricycles for police.