The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889: The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries, and the City Corporation

by David Owen

Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674863453
• ISBN13: 9780674863453
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"