Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain ; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842.

Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain by Edwin Chadwick

Uniform title : Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain

London : Printed by W. Clowes and Sons for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1842.

xxx pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 457 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations : text-figs ; maps : tables, diagrams, tables ; 22 cm

Contents : Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain by Edwin Chadwick, p. [xxi]-457

Signed by George Nicholls, George Cornewall Lewis, Edmund Walker Head (p. ix)

Lithography by Standidge & Co

Copy 1. In publisher's binding. Spine title : General report of the sanitory condition of the labouring population of Great Britain - 1842. LSHTM Library date stamp 31 July 1946 ; LSHTM Library bookplate date 29.12.1947. There are only 23 leaves of plates as the plate bound in between pp. 396/397 in copies 2 and 3, is missing in Copy 1

Copy 2. In publisher's binding. Spine title : General report of the sanitory condition of the labouring population of Great Britain - 1842. Provenance : Bookplate of the Society of Medical Officer's of Health 'Presented in May, 1913, by Mr. J. Reynolds Sykes in memory of his father, the late J.F.J. Sykes, D.Sc., M.D., President of the Society, 1904-1905, Medical Officer of Health of St. Pancras ; mss inscriptions of former owners - 'Purchased of Percy Hall, 21 Novemb. 1894 John F.J. Sykes' ; R. Mapletoft Esq. Chairman, Sudbury Union'; ALS from Isabella M. Holmes, Hon. Sec., The Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 83 Lancaster Gate, London, W., 17 March, 1900 to R.B. Prosser [refering to Chadwick's Report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring classes (1842), page 277] ; a cutting on 'The sanitary condition of Birmingham in 1842' by R.B.P. loose at the back

Copy 3. Rebound in half-leather having spine title : Sanitory conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain. General report 1842. C.E. Paget. This copy has a bookbinder's ticket on the front pastedown : Bound by Birdsall & Son, Northampton. There is an undeciphered signature on the front free endpaper : ?James McBackenfod?. In Copy 3 there are 25 leaves of plates in total as one of the plates bound between pp. 266/267 is duplicated

Copy 4. Provenance : Ownership signature on front endpaper : W.[H.?/A.?] Corfield, 1885 ; LSHTM Library stamp dates - 10 July 1929 and 13 Jan. 1967. Rebound in half leather, green marble paper boards, spine title : 'Report on sanitary condition of the labouring population. Chadwick'

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