Author: ROBERTSON John
Title: Housing and the Public Health
Description: London, Cassell and Company 1919 xi, 159pp, 12 diagrams 20x13, blue cloth, black text Slight shelfwear to cloth, foxing and spotting on edges and first and last few pages, good thus. Very interesting analysis of good and bad housing, and its effects. The diagrams are largely from the Tudor-Walters Report and similar conclusions and drawn - substandard housing for both the urban and rural working poor was not just a serious health issue, but a moral one too. Robertson was the Medical Officer of Health for the city of Birmingham, and a major figure in public health and housing for many years. Knighted for his work in 1925, his obituary in the British Medical Journal described him as someone who took 'a broad view of his responsibilities … a town planner long before the term came into common use'.

Keywords: MASS HOUSING


See more books from our catalog: MASS HOUSING