Punch,  15 (1848), 198.

A Hint for the Sanitary Board

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Sanitation, Public Health, Railways, Medical Practitioners, Class, Disease


    Points out that Edwin Chadwick's call for 'drainage and dry atmosphere' has not adequately been observed on second- and third-class railway travel. Urges the adoption of Chadwick's measures on the railways, since 'the ague is quite an epidemic on some of the lines'.



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