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Smallwood Hospital Redditch Heritage
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................6
Chapter 1 CHOLERA....................................................................................................8
The spread of cholera...........................................................................................................................8
Cholera in Britain..................................................................................................................................8
Cholera in Redditch..............................................................................................................................9
Extract from ‘Old Redditch’ by William Avery, 1887............................................................................10
Establishing a local Board of Health...................................................................................................11
Draught, pills and brandy....................................................................................................................13
Details of the victims...........................................................................................................................14
The Big Pool.......................................................................................................................................15
Reclaiming the costs from the Poor Rate...........................................................................................16
Cholera appeared again in England...................................................................................................17
Chapter 2 OTHER DISEASES AND LEGISLATION.................................................19
Diseases in nineteenth century England and Wales..........................................................................19
Diseases in nineteenth century Redditch..................................................................................................19
Public health legislation 1848 and 1858.............................................................................................24
Redditch and the 1858 Acts 57................................................................................................................................................................25
The Local Government Board Act 1871.............................................................................................26
The Public Health Act 1875................................................................................................................26
Chapter 3 PUBLIC HEALTH IN REDDITCH 1873-1880............................................27
The role of the Medical Officer...................................................................................................................27
Sewerage and waterworks..................................................................................................................27
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