Health and British Magazines in the Nineteenth Century

Victorian England was obsessed by pre‐occupations with public health, chiefly because the new “Industrial Society”, after 1830, manifestly failed to promote “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”. In other words, the new wealth generated inequality, strife, and wretchedness. Mostly, of course, the fault lay in ignorance rather than in wickedness or even greed. Progress in industrialisation went far ahead of progress in both medical science and the equally important science of public administration. It became urgently necessary to develop competence in urban and local government, in order to render the new industrial towns fit to live in, let alone...