Author: Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
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Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Author: Frederick Engels
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734060400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Reproduction of the original: The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 by Frederick Engels

Author: George Chandler Whipple
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Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: William Ashworth
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040274579
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government. The author begins with an examination of the rapid growth of towns in the nineteenth century and the consequent emergence of inescapable new problems of health, morality, and economic efficiency, and goes on to discuss the chief ways in which a remedy for these problems was sought in the later part of the century. Separate chapters are devoted to new model villages and towns to the spread of suburbs, and to the improvement of already established towns by means of clearance and rebuilding schemes, bye-law control, and efforts of private philanthropy. The final section of the book shows how the successes and failures of earlier attempts at reforms stimulated a demand for something more comprehensive, which found expression in the town planning act of 1909, and ends by considering the influences that brought to the town planning movement a new strength and importance in the 1930s and the war years. The author has drawn his material from a wide range of government and local authority reports, the writing of philanthropists and social workers, local guides and topographical works and the book will be of great value to those interested in social history, architecture and urban sociology.

Author: Grosvenor Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.). Medical Department
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Robert Vaughan
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Author: Richard Conniff
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262047969
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics. After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when deadly diseases were a routine part of life. It is harder still to fathom that the best medical thinking at that time blamed these diseases on noxious miasmas, bodily humors, and divine dyspepsia. This all began to change on a day in April 1676, when a little-known Dutch merchant described bacteria for the first time. Beginning on that day in Delft and ending on the day in 1978 when the smallpox virus claimed its last known victim, Ending Epidemics explains how we came to understand and prevent many of our worst infectious diseases—and double average life expectancy. Ending Epidemics tells the story behind “the mortality revolution,” the dramatic transformation not just in our longevity, but in the character of childhood, family life, and human society. Richard Conniff recounts the moments of inspiration and innovation, decades of dogged persistence, and, of course, periods of terrible suffering that stir individuals, institutions, and governments to act in the name of public health. Stars of medical science feature in this drama, but lesser-known figures also play a critical role. And while the history of germ theory is central to this story, Ending Epidemics also describes the importance of everything from sanitation improvements and the discovery of antibiotics to the development of the microscope and the syringe—technologies we now take for granted.