"Journal Of Public Health & Sanitary Review" also know as "Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London"
4 Volumes
Edited by Benjamin Ward Richardson
Published by Thomas Richards For The Proprietor: Great Queen Street
Provenance: ex New South Wales Parliamentary Library
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Volume 1: 1855
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Volume 2: 1856
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Volume 3: 1857
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Volume 4: 1858
Scarce titles arguably rare. There are no copies held in any libraries according to WorldCat. There are no copies for sale online according to multiple sources including ViaLibris. It is difficult to find any reference to these publications. We consider these books to be of high importance as an historic reference of the development of a broad public health strategy. Local pickup in Upper Ferntree Gully Victoria is available for this set. A difficult set to price, we are open to reasonable offers.
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Benjamin Ward Richardson
(1828 - 1896) was a British physician, anaesthetist, physiologist, sanitarian, and a prolific writer on medical history. He was the recipient of the Fothergill gold medal, awarded by the Medical Society of London in 1854 and of the Astley Cooper triennial prize for an essay in physiology.
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The Epidemiological Society of London
, also known as the Royal Society of Medicine's Epidemiological Society, was founded in London in 1850 with the objective of investigating the causes and conditions which influence the origin, propagation, mitigation, and prevention of epidemic disease. The society became a part of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1907.
Following a severe outbreak of cholera in England in 1831-32 a London physician, J.H.Tucker, proposed in a letter to the Lancet that a society should be formed to specifically study epidemics. The first meeting of the Epidemiological Society of London took place on 6 May 1850 in Hanover Square, London. At a follow up meeting in July, chaired by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a constitution was agreed and officers appointed. Dr. Benjamin Guy Babington, a Guy's Hospital physician, was elected as the first President of the society, whose agreed objectives were:
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to institute rigid examination into the causes and conditions which influence the origin, propagation, mitigation, and prevention of epidemic diseases
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to institute...original and comprehensive researches into the nature and laws of disease
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to communicate with government and legislature on matters connected with the prevention of epidemic diseases."
