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Typhoid in Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875-7
Author(s): Nigel Richardson (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1851969918
- ISBN-13: 9781851969913
Book Description
Explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study. This study compares the sanitary state of the community with others nearby, and Uppingham School with comparable schools of that era.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘meticulously researched and carefully analysed … manages to illuminate the wider picture of medicine and public health in rural England in the mid-Victorian period.’ Victorian Studies ‘Not only is Nigel Richardson’s book a comprehensive and detailed account of this traumatic episode in the school’s history; it is also an extremely creditable contribution to the wider literature on public health in Victorian Britain.’ ISIS
About the Author
Nigel Richardson is former head of the Perse School in Cambridge.
