A report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. Made at the request of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department

by Edwin Chadwick

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Philadelphia: printed by C. Sherman, 1845. First American edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 7 -48; removed from binding; very good. With an American Preface. Chadwick was one of the greatest of sanitary reformers of the 19th century. As a result of his reports a Public Health Act was passed in 1848. Harvard only in OCLC, to which we can add the National Library of Medicine. Item #55455

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