Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.
'a highly valuable scholarly resource that touches on almost all the concerns of contemporary historians of nineteenth-century medicine. This collection does not merely make more widely available a few neglected primary resources; rather, it is successful in proposing a set of new research questions of critical importance to the field.' Social History of Medicine