Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform: Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain (International Library of Historical Studies)

David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government to combat cholera in nineteenth-century Britain. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean's account exposes the struggles between local and national governments as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention.