English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon.

  • Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.
Date:
1897
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Credit: English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER V. TUDOR LEGISLATION. PAGES The Medical Profession: Physicians; Surgeons; Royal College of Physicians, and its privileges. Corporation of Barbers and Surgeons; Separate Incorporation of Surgeons, eventually as Royal College; Apothecaries supervised by Physicians and Grocers, subsequently incorporated, and eventually made a licensing medical authority. Commissioners of Sewers. Previous care against floods; Act of 1532. New Poor-Jjaws. Previous provision for the poor, and against dishonest begging. Extinction of the monastic charities. Principles of the new laws: against sturdy beggars and rogues ; for relief of the true poor. Elizabethan Acts. Works of Town Improvement 65—81 CHAPTER VI. LONDON UNDER ELIZABETH AND THE STUARTS. Streets and Sewers; Forbidden buildings and crowdings; Lord Mayor as social disciplinarian ; Maintenance of supplies of Food and Fuel; Muni- cipal granaries, and the Assize of Bread; Control of Brewery and of sale of beer ; Oysters. Measures against flesh-eating on fish-days. Repeated visitations of Plague, and the proceedings thereon consequent: 1580-4; 1606-7; 1625; 1629-31; 1636; 1663-4. Development of Quarantine. 1665-6, The Great Plague. 1666, The Great Fire. The New London. Subsequent facts as to the Public Health. Queen Anne's London . 82—106 CHAPTER VII. THE EISE AND EARLY PROGRESS OF BRITISH PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. The Fathers of Modern Preventive Medicine. Mead. Pringle. Lind. Con- trivances for Ventilation by Hales and Sutton. Captain Cook's applica- tion of hygienic rules. Blane. Baker. Jenner. Eighteenth Century's Alms for oblivion. Early Nineteenth Century publications: Blane (continued) and Thackrah 107—127 CHAPTER VIII. THE GROWTH OF HUMANITY IN BRITISH POLITICS. Special influences making for the Neiv Humanity of the Eighteenth Century. England in 1738. The Methodists and other religious revivers. The political influences from 1776. Greatly increased popular discussion of principles of government: Altruism in politics: Demands for new legislation. New spirit reflected in the common literature of the time. First efforts and successes in Parliament. Prison Reform: John Howard. India, and Edmund Burke. Negro-slavery: the Quakers and Wilberforce. Ob- structive alarms. Criminal Law : Romilly and Mackintosh. Rush of final successes. Summary . ..... ... . . . . 128—165