Sir Edwin Chadwick, the Social Reformer
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The Life and Doctrine of Sir Edwin Chadwick
fashion to belittle and besmirch, though his early activities in associati on with Bentham, Grote and the Mills, father and son, commenc ed some years before the accession of Queen Victoria. When that reign began, as Sir John Simon truly observes, " there existed hardly a glimmer of intelligent public interest in matters affecting the public health." The changes that came in quick succession du...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/172421b0