A sewer is the best medicine : through plague, wars, famine and flood : Sir Robert Rawlinson and the nineteenth century public health revolution / J. Andrew Charles.

Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the city of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector.

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Rawlinson, Robert, 1810-1898.

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Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the city of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector.