Punch,  7 (1844), 227.

The Health of Towns Commission

Anon

Genre:

News-Digest, Drollery

Subjects:

Public Health, Pollution, Disease


    Reports on the investigation by Professor Fairplay (a possible reference to Lyon Playfair) of the diseases caused by living in cellars. Notes that 'Fairplay occupies the chair of Rheumatics in a cellar under the Royal Institution' and has successfully caught a number of respiratory diseases.



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