1858 A Collection of Reports on the Sanitary Health of the People of England & the Royal Navy

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

Three volumes bound into one. Very scarce works. This volume contains: Copy "of the Statistical Report of the Health of the Royal Navy, for the Year 1856", 1858. Being a detailed study of the health of the Royal Navy across different stations, exploring the relative proportion of sickness in different vessels. Including fever, cholera, wounds and injuries, and the total mortality. Sewage of Towns: Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Best Mode of Distributing the Sewage of Towns, and Applying it to Beneficial and Profitable Uses, 1858. A report presented to both Houses of Parliament from the Sewage Commission. With a folding plan of the proposed plan for dealing with the sewage of the metropolis for 1857-1858. General Board of Health: Papers Relating to the Sanitary State of the People of England, 1858. Being the result of an inquiry into the different proportions of death produced by certain diseases in different districts of England, communicated to the General Board of Health by Edward Headlam Greenhow, an English physician, epidemiologist, sanitarian, statistician, clinician and lecturer. With an introductory report by the Medica Officer of the Board on the preventability of certain kinds of premature death.