Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 462
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"Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the nineteenth century; among other things he was responsible for the introduction of glazed earthenware pipes for drains" - Fielding H. Garrison and Leslie T. Morton's A Medical Bibliography.