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Board of guardians

Bodies that administered Poor Law in the UK

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  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Gt. Britain / by Edwin Chadwick ; edited with an introduction by M.W. Flinn.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].

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    A supplementary report on the results of a spiecal (sic) inquiry into the practice of interment in towns made at the request of Her Majestys' Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, / by Edwin Chadwick.

    Board of guardians | Date: 1843
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    Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Gt. Britain / by Edwin Chadwick ; edited with an introduction by M.W. Flinn.

    Board of guardians | Date: [1965]
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    Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.

    Board of guardians | Date: 1835-1847
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    Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain / by Edwin Chadwick ; with a new introduction by David Gladstone.

    Edwin Chadwick | Date: 1997
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    Parochial medical relief considered in a letter to the 'Poor Law Commissioners,' developing an entirely new system of medical remuneration / [Edward Taylor Meredith].

    Meredith, Edward Taylor, -approximately 1863. | Date: 1840
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Edwin Chadwick
Home Office
Parliament of the United Kingdom

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United Kingdom
Poor laws
Public Health
Working class
Working class - Dwellings

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