The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs

Hence health concerns could not so readily be translated into pipe dimensions, professional credentials or impenetrable bureaucracy, but instead were persistently public - matters for mayors and sub-prefects, for journalists and local doctors, and for the 'epidemic doctors', sent by the st...

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Published inBritish Journal for the History of Science Vol. 40; no. 146; p. 449
Main Author Hamlin, Christopher
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Norwich Cambridge University Press 01.09.2007
Subjects
Disease transmission
Mortality
Public health
Social activism
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Summary:Hence health concerns could not so readily be translated into pipe dimensions, professional credentials or impenetrable bureaucracy, but instead were persistently public - matters for mayors and sub-prefects, for journalists and local doctors, and for the 'epidemic doctors', sent by the state to investigate and recommend, but with no powers actually to change things.
ISSN:0007-0874
1474-001X
DOI:10.1017/S0007087407000179