Traces the evolution of parliamentary policy on mental health in the nineteenth century. The early Select Committees (see IUP volumes 1 and 2) were more intent on eradicating cruelty and abuses in already existing asylums. By 1828, however, the inquiries had strongly emphasised the need for a system of asylums erected and administered from public funds. Thus from 1828 to 1849 a series of bills provided for the construction, maintenance and regulation of public mental hospitals. During this period the eradication of abuses went on apace so that by 1859 (see IUP volumes 3 and 4) cruelty to patients had been all but eliminated. The law on insanity was consolidated in the late fifties.
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Contains five volumes of Select Committee reports issued between 1828 and 1882. These provide a thorough documentation of the facts and thinking which led to major policy decisions on medical education and practice. Included in the set are reports and evidence on the manner of obtaining subjects for dissection, the laws, regulations and usages at the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians in London and medical qualifications, degrees and registration.
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The IUP Infectious Diseases Set contains the official reports surrounding the cholera epidemics of 1848-49 and 1854 (volumes 1-3); the Contagious Diseases Act 1866-69 (volumes 4-7). Reports in volume 8 deal with rabies in animals, hydrophobia, British reaction to Pasteur’s treatment and the influenza epidemic of 1889-92. The findings of the Royal Commission on Vaccination (against smallpox) originally published in 1889-97, are reproduced in volmes 9-13.
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By the year 1850 the rapid expansion of British domestic trade in consumer goods was creating new problems for the legislature and demanding new solutions. Stricter government control was urgently required particularly over trade in food, drinks and substances, then loosely referred to as drugs. The first major inquiries came between the years 1852 and 1857 and were responsible for new and updated legislation on the adulteration of foods, drinks and drugs, on the control of the pharmacy trade and on the sale of poisons. The Select Committee Report of 1874 on food adulteration was highly influential and a great body of legislation appeared on the subject.
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The set includes many papers dealing with the administration of public health and local government services, including a detailed survey of public health facilities in every town in Britain. The report of the Royal Commission on Sanitary Laws (1868) contains the first major survey of British local government administration and provides detailed information on the system before it was completely reorganized later in the century.
Set Price £2,415 / $3,977 (if volumes are bought individually) Discounted Price for Complete Subject Set of 17 Volumes £2,175 / $3,575
