Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822
Series: Harvard historical studies -- v. 72; Harvard historical studies -- v. 72.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Public health
Description: This study covers only a small portion of the full story as the history ends in 1822. After this year, Boston's government changed from a town to a city. The early 1820's also mark the dividing line in the North between the intense concern with yellow fever that followed Philadelphia's epidemic of 1793 and the advent of Asiatic cholera in 1832. Moreover, in the 1830's and 1840's a new phase in the history of public health, the so-called sanitary reform movement, became apparent. Many have looked upon this period as the beginning of the modern public health movement; consequently the earlier years have been neglected and their history is less well known. Although this work is restricted to Boston, by and large, all American colonies shared the same essential homogeneity, and the same diseases. Thus the history of public health in Boston becomes significant for the whole American experience. -- from Preface.
Notes: Based on thesis, Harvard University.

"A note on the sources": p. [259]-267. Bibliographical footnotes.