Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

Slumming: Eros and Altruism in Victorian London

OR THE BETTER part of the century preceding World War II, Britons went slumming to see for themselves how the poor lived. They insisted that firsthand experience among the metropolitan poor was essential for all who claimed to speak authoritatively about social problems. To a remarkable degree, the men and women who governed church and state in late-nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain and d...

Health and housing in Victorian London.

I In January 1908, the council of the London borough of Islington met to consider a report from the Medical Officer of Health which indicated that the level of infant mortality was the same as in the 1840s, 146 per 1,000. A resolution was moved that three paid health visitors should be appointed as part of a campaign to reduce this heavy toll; also before the council was a protest from the Holl...

Health, wealth and politics in Victorian Wales

but there has been neglect of systematic study of the development of medicine, and of medical services, in the smaller geographical areas-the large town, the city, or the country. It was, therefore, a pleasure to prepare to welcome to a very meagrely furnished shelf in the library Anning's History of medicine in Leeds. Regrettably, the welcome has to be somewhat qualified, for Anning's book is ...

Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief.

Prostitution and Victorian social reform

medicine, because they are "personal biographies". The "ideas and methods" of these civil servants were part of the lives of real people: the impersonal and impassioned Chadwick and the diplomatic but authoritarian Simon. Finer's account of the scandal of the Andover workhouse for example displays vividly the working of Victorian government through the personal frustrations of Chadwick. Amongst...