Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Contribution to a Specialist Magazine - With ISSN
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Contribution to a Specialist Magazine - With ISSN
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T1 - The crusade … against communal uncleanliness’ – Dr Edward Sergeant, Lancashire’s first Medical Officer of Health, 1890 to 1917.
AU - Halliday, Emma
AU - Karunanithi, Sakthi
N1 - https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office/order-a-copy/
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - Since 2013, local authorities have been responsible for public health services and improving the health of the population. Yet in the 19th and 20th centuries, councils also played a pivotal role in tackling unfit living and working conditions and curbing infectious disease. Using contemporary public health reports from Lancashire Archives, Emma Halliday from Lancaster University and Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi, Lancashire’s current Director of Public Health explore the role of the county council’s first Medical Officer of Health – Dr Edward Sergeant – and how his work compares to the present day.
AB - Since 2013, local authorities have been responsible for public health services and improving the health of the population. Yet in the 19th and 20th centuries, councils also played a pivotal role in tackling unfit living and working conditions and curbing infectious disease. Using contemporary public health reports from Lancashire Archives, Emma Halliday from Lancaster University and Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi, Lancashire’s current Director of Public Health explore the role of the county council’s first Medical Officer of Health – Dr Edward Sergeant – and how his work compares to the present day.
KW - HISTORY
KW - PUBLIC HEALTH
KW - History of medicine
M3 - Contribution to a Specialist Magazine - With ISSN
JO - Archives - Lancashire history magazine
JF - Archives - Lancashire history magazine
ER -