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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With Appendices cover

Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With Appendices

Chapter 11: LIST OF PLATES.
By Edwin Chadwick
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A detailed governmental inquiry compiles observations and reports from medical officers, assistant commissioners, and local boards to assess the sanitary conditions affecting the labouring population across towns and rural districts. It gathers mortality and disease data, documents drainage, sewage, housing, and overcrowding, and surveys the prevalence of fever and other epidemic and endemic illnesses. The volume presents regional case studies and technical appendices, contrasts living conditions, identifies sanitary causes of sickness, and outlines practical measures and cottage improvements aimed at reducing disease and strengthening public health infrastructure.

LIST OF PLATES.

Map, exhibiting the track of fever and cholera, and the badly-cleansed portions of the town of Leeds 160
 
Map, exhibiting the numbers and places of death from epidemic and other diseases affected by locality, in the parish of Bethnal Green, during one year 160
 
Linear representation of the comparative numbers and progress of deaths from consumption, from epidemics, and other classes of disease, in the metropolis, during the two years ended the 1st of January, 1842 167
 
Plans and views of habitations for the labouring classes 266
 
Group of Northumberland cottages, copied from a view given by Dr. Gilly, canon of Durham;—Group of cottages at Harlaxton, erected by Gregory Gregory, Esq.;—Plans and elevations of cottages, erected by the Rev. Benyon de Beauvoir, at Culford, Suffolk;—Plans of labourers’ cottages, erected by the Earl of Leicester, at Holkham; by the Earl of Roseberry in Scotland;—Plan of a new form of labourers’ cottages, erected by Sir Stewart Monteath, at Closeburn;—Plan of labourers’ cottages, erected by Messrs. H. and E. Ashworth, at Turton; by S. Greg, Esq., at Bollington.  
 
Plan, by Mr. Sydney Smirke, of lodging-houses for workmen in towns 274
 
Section of the chief forms of sewers used in the metropolis 378
 
Plan of the arrangement of the future increment of towns for the protection of the sanitary condition and convenience of the population, by Captain Vetch, of the Royal Engineers 384
 
General plan of house and street sewerage, and of the construction of streets favourable to cleansing and dryness, by Captain Vetch 389
 
Isometrical view of a model agricultural labourer’s cottage, by Mr. Loudon 396
 
Isometrical view of a mechanic’s model double cottage, by Mr. Loudon 398
 
Furniture of cottages: plans of construction of beds and windows 399
 
Plans and elevations of labourers’ cottages erected by the Messrs. H. and E. Ashworth;—Plans and elevations of houses in Birmingham 402
 
Plan for the arrangement of public walks in restricted space in towns, as shown in the arrangement of the Arboretum, in Derby, by Mr. Loudon 406