Volume 1

The health of nations : a review of the works of Edwin Chadwick / with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson.

Date:
1887
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Credit: The health of nations : a review of the works of Edwin Chadwick / with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PKEFACE. N the early part of the year 1883 Mr. Edwin Chadwick, the author of the I works herewith suhmitted to the public, did me the honour to entrust the labour of preparation to my care, with the understand- ing that the selection and arrangement, in two volumes, should rest entirely on my responsibility. I accepted the task with the expectation that the work might be completed in from twelve to fifteen months; but long before that time had arrived, the abundance of material which was placed at my disposal, accruing from the labours of one of the busiest lives during sixty active years, was sufficient to call for fully three times the period originally contemplated. The work thus protracted beyond what was expected at the outset, has, however, afforded compensation in the assurance felt, stage by stage, that it will not be lost, and that the his- torian of a later day, who shall write the history of the England of the nineteenth century will be glad that there was so much material to be con-