Dr. Southwood Smith: A Retrospect

Appointment to Fever Hospital. 'Westminster Review' articles in 1825. Laws of Epidemics. Principles laid the foundation of Sanitary Reform. Its practical importance. Devotion of...

History of Factories. Laws previous to 1833. Apprenticeship system. Appointed Commissioner. Description of state of factories in 1833. Passing of the Factory Act. Subsequent add...

Outbreak of fever in London. Personal inspection of Bethnal Green and Whitechapel. First Report to Poor Law Commissioners. Ventilation in crowded districts. Overcrowding of chil...

Children's Employment Commission, Mines and Collieries. Improvement in the condition of women working therein. Report on Trades and Manufactures. Homes of eastern dispensary pat...

Causes of delay. History of the sanitary movement at this time a series of inquiries and defeated bills. "Health of Towns Association" founded to spread knowledge and guide legi...

Appointment to the General Board of Health. Letter to Lord Morpeth. Work at Whitehall with Lord Ashley and Mr Chadwick. Cholera epidemic of 1848-49. System of "house-to-house vi...

"The Pines," Weybridge. Happiness in its beauty. Need of rest. Study of modern physiology for new edition of the 'Philosophy of Health.' Publication of 'Results of Sanitary Impr...

Spread of the social reforms Dr Southwood Smith originated. Improvement in the public health and saving of life. Memorial bust in the National Portrait Gallery. Lines upon it. A...

Thomas Southwood Smith was born at Martock in Somersetshire in 1788, and was intended by his family to become a minister in the body of Calvinistic dissenters to which they belo...

On first arriving in London in 1820, my grandfather, who whilst still at Yeovil had married for the second time (Mary, daughter of Mr John Christie of Hackney),[4] settled in Tr...

The 'Treatise on Fever' held an important place in the development of that sanitary ideal to the realisation of which my grandfather afterwards devoted himself almost exclusivel...

In order to understand the abuses which existed in factories in 1833, we must revert to the system of employment at the end of the last century and trace its gradual development.

Perhaps the most necessary and the most tried quality in a reformer is Patience. Notwithstanding the publication of the 'Treatise on Fever' in 1830, and the tribute paid by the...

I have now arrived at the period of my grandfather's life which comes within my own memory, and which begins with the days described in the Introduction when I used to watch him...

It is not easy to convince a whole nation of the truth of new principles, however closely they may in reality affect its welfare; not easy to produce a degree of conviction that...

Immediately after the passing of the Public Health Act, Lord Morpeth wrote to my grandfather that the changes made in the bill during its passage through Parliament had prevente...

When his official life came to a close, my grandfather retired to a house on Weybridge Heath, and he met the sudden cessation of his eager public life with the same calm courage...

My grandfather had travelled abroad but little during his strenuous life. He had, it is true, been to Paris in 1850, accompanied by Mr Charles Macaulay, Dr John Sutherland, and...

It was at this time that the Prince Consort died, and England was full of mourning. Lord Shaftesbury speaks, in his diary of December 16, 1861, of that national loss, and then a...

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