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  • This report on public health in Manchester was published in 1923. It includes a reference to cases of enteric fever due to eating polluted Conwy mussels in the early years of the twentieth century.
Observations on the History of Public Health Effort in Manchester by James Niven (1923) [front cover, image 1 of 5]
  • This Report to the General Board of Health, published in 1853, was a damning indictment of the new industrial town of Aberdare. Massive industrial growth accompanied by a rapid increase in population had led to the creation of slum conditions in which disease proliferated.
Report of an inquiry into the water supply and sanitary condition of Aberdare, 1853 [image 1 of 27]
  • This report on the sanitary condition of the town and borough of Wrexham was compiled on behalf of the General Board of Health in 1850 by George T. Clark. The report is based on an inquiry conducted by Clark into the sewerage, drainage and supply of water and general sanitary condition of the town. Living conditions in many parts of the town were found to be extremely bad and the report provides a damning picture of the misery and illhealth suffered by many of the inhabitants of Wrexham as a result of poor housing and lack of sanitation.
Report by George T. Clark on the Sanitary Condition of the town and borough of Wrexham (London, 1850) [frontispiece, image 1 of 29]
'Cursory Remarks on Corpulence or Obesity Considered as a Disease With a Critical Examination of Ancient and Modern Opinions Relative to its Causes and Cures', by William Wadd Esq. F.L.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to the King, 1822, title page [image 1 of 2]
  • A collection of five letters from Florence Nightingale to William Rathbone, MP for Caernarfonshire, concerning the typhoid epidemic at Bangor in 1882.
Letters from Florence Nightingale to William Rathbone MP, 1882-3