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    "Built for health" : American architecture and the healthy house, 1850-1930 / by Victoria Jane Solan.

    | Solan, Victoria Jane | Date: [2004]
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    First report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the housing of the working classes.

    | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes | Date: 1889
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    La Société anonyme Elbeuvienne d'habitations hygiéniques de 1917 à 1940 : paternalisme ou philanthropie? / Guillaume Jaouen.

    | Jaouen, Guillaume. | Date: 2005
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    Reports on the sanitary state of the labouring classes, as affected chiefly by the situation and construction of their dwellings, in and about the metropolis.

    | Board of guardians | Date: 1840
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    The metropolitan poor : semifactual accounts, 1795-1910 / edited by John Marriott and Masaie Matsumura.

    | Date: 1999
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