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Pioneers in the Victorian provinces: veterinarians, public health and the urban animal economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2003

Anne Hardy
Anne Hardy
Affiliation:
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD
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Abstract

From the 1850s in Britain, concerns were growing about the role of animals in transmitting disease to man, whether through the food chain or through infection. While London is often seen as providing a model for public health reform, it was the great provincial cities that initiated veterinary involvement in public health in the closing years of the century. The emergence of this new strand of public health activity is the subject of this paper.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , December 2002 , pp. 372 - 387
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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