Typhoid in Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875-1877

by Nigel Richardson

After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study. Uppingham is a small (and unusually well-documented) market town which contains a boarding school. Despite legal changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082296645X
• ISBN13: 9780822966456
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"