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.

  • Edwin Chadwick
Date:
1842
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART. HER MAJESTY’S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. Poor Law Commission Office^ Somerset House, 9th July, 1842. Sir, On tlie 14th ?4ay, 1838, the Poor Law Commissioners presented to Lord John Rnssell a report “ relative to certain charges which have been disallowed by the auditors of unions in England and Wales ; ” together with two supplem.entary reports; one a “ Report on the prevalence of certain Physical Causes of Fever in the Metropolis, which might be removed by ])roper sanitary measures, by Neil Arnott, M.D., and James Pliillips Kay, M.D.; the other a “ Report on some of the Phy- sical Causes of Sickness and Mortality to which the Poor are peculiarly exposed, and which are capable of removal by Sanitary Regulations exemplified in the pre.sent condition of the Bethnal Green and Whitechapel Districts, as ascertained on a personal inspection by Southwood Smith, M.D., Physician to the London Fever Hospital.” (See Fourth Annual Report, App. A, No. 1.) On the 29th April, 1839, the Commissioners received from Dr. Southwood Smith a “ Report on the prevalence of Fever in Twenty Metropolitan Unions or Parishes during the year ended die 20th March, 1838,” which they appended to their Fifth Annual Report. (App. C, No. 2.)