Health and the city

Authors

  • John Ashton

Abstract

The paper tells of how, in the first half of the 19th century, english cities were faced with health problems brought upon them by their being rapidly built up consequent upon the galloping industrialization rife in that period. It then speaks of the steps made to meet this situation, among these the setting up of bodies such as the Association for Health in the Cities. Thanks to the findings of such associations, scattered information could be gathered together from which, in time, it was clearly discerned that overcrowding, a lack of fresh water or of a strict control of foodstuff hygiene must lead on to epidemics. These studies opened the way for preventive municipal health legislation. Having thus established its grounds, the paper goes on the detail some four periods that public health thinking could be said to have gone through before reaching the WHS's 1986 Healthy Cities Project.

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Published

1991-09-23

How to Cite

Ashton, J. (1991). Health and the city. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (89), 17–21. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/83740

Issue

Ciudad y Territorio. Ciencia Urbana. Núm. 89 (1991)

Section

Articulos

License

Copyright (c) 1991 John Ashton

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