Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population
Edwin Chadwick set out parish mortality data by class and place, showing average ages at death in industrial towns far below those in rural counties. His mechanism — miasma — was wrong, and his prescription — drainage, water supply, refuse removal — was right. The report made urban mortality a statistical argument rather than an impression, and it is the foundation of the public health legislation that followed.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Edwin Chadwick · person · United Kingdom · not located
- Nineteenth-century British urbanisation · phenomenon · United Kingdom · not located
- Manchester · city · United Kingdom
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain
Supports the class-and-place comparison of average age at death, and the report's role in founding British public health legislation. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the specific mortality figures in Chadwick's tables are therefore not quoted in this pack.
Poor Law Commission / HMSO · 1842 · Partly verified
Edwin Chadwick, 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, 1842
Recorded on Edwin Chadwick
- The peak of parliamentary enclosure
- The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
- Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population
- The census records an urban majority
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