Article ID: CBB000770479

The Public's Reaction to Public Health: Petitions Submitted to Parliament, 1847--1848 (2002)

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Public reaction to public health legislation is often assumed to have mirrored that expressed in Parliament or in influential provincial newspapers, yet evidence for the public reaction to public health legislation is elusive. This article, based on an analysis of 871 petitions submitted to Parliament during the 1847 and 1847--8 parliamentary sessions, argues that, during 1847 and 1848, few issues stimulated more interest than public health, and that a geographically and socially diverse constituency embraced national sanitary legislation. It also argues that concerns about centralization did not dominate the petitions, and that the parliamentary interpretation of centralization overlapped but slightly with provincial concerns.

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Authors & Contributors
Hamlin, Christopher S.
Leclercq, Valérie
J. Andrew Charles
Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre
Allen-Emerson, Michelle
Tognotti, Eugenia
Concepts
Public health
Sanitation
Medicine and government
Medicine
Public understanding of medicine
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
London (England)
Italy
China
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