REPORT OF A GENERAL PLAN FOR THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC AND PERSONAL HEALTH,; Devised, prepared and recommended by the Comissioners appointed under a Resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relating to a sanitary survey of the State
1972 · NY
by [Shattuck, Lemuel, Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr., and Jehiel Abbott]
NY: Arno Press, 1972. Reprint of the 1850 Sutton & Wentworth edition. 8vo, pp. 544. Illustrated with maps, plans and several drawings. (Medicine & society in America.) Green cloth, stamped in silver. Top edge slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy. An interesting survey of sanitary conditions in various towns in Massachusetts, with history, commentary on practices in Europe and England, statistics on epidemics, details about treatment of workers and their housing, etc. A lot of information. (Inventory #: 41981)