First-[second] report of the Royal Sanitary Commission.

London : Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1869-1874.

2 volumes in 2 (1st report. 449, xxxv pages; 2nd report, volumes 1. 1 unnumbered leaf, iv, 177 pages; 2nd report, volumes 2. 360 pages; 2nd report, volumes 3. part 1. [iii], 211 pages, 212 unnumbered pages; 2nd report, volumes 3, part 2. [ii], ix pages, [213-]401 pages ; 34 cm.

Command paper. C.281

Command paper. C.-1109

At foot of t.p. of the Second report : [C.281]

At foot of t.p. of the Second report (Vol. 3) : [C.-1109]

No command number is apparent on the First report

Bound retaining the original blue covers of First and Second (Vols. 1 & 2) reports

LSHTM Library accession stamp date on First and Second (Vols 1-2) reports - 18 June 1929

Provenance. Bookplate of Society of Medical Officers of Health in Second report, Vol. 3, with LSHTM Library label pasted over it

1st report and 2nd report (Vols 1 & 2) bound in black cloth with spine title : Royal Sanitary Commission. 1st & 2nd reports. 1869 & 1871. Bookbinder's stamp on front board : Weeks & Co. Binders. London N.W.1. ; Second report (Vol 3) in maroon case with spine lettered R.C. - Sanitary - 1869-70

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty

Chairman : the Right Hon. Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley

Contents of First and Second (Vols. 1-2) reports which are bound together: First report of the Royal Sanitary Commission with the minutes of evidence up to 5th August 1869 (London : H.M.S.O., 1869).-- Second report of the Royal Sanitary Commission. Vol. I. The report. [C.281] (London : H.M.S.O., 1871).-- Vol. II. Arrangement of sanitary statutes, analysis of evidence, précis of oral evidence, paper on watershed boards, and memorandum on duties of medical offices of public health [C.281.-I] (London : H.M.S.O., 1871). Contents of Second report (Vol. 3. Pts 1 & 2) : III. Pt. 1. Minutes of evidence from November 1869 to June 1870. [C.281.-II] (London : H.M.S.O., 1871).-- III. Pt 2. Tabular abstract of answers in writing received to circular questions issued by the commissioners, and letters and memoranda. [C.-1109] (London : H.M.S.O., 1874)

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