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Paperback The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture of Manchester Book

ISBN: 0367149850

ISBN13: 9780367149857

The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture of Manchester

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This book was originally published in 1832. Dr. James Philips Kay (later Sir James Kay Shuttleworth) studied medicine in Edinburgh and then began to practise in Manchester where he acquired a wide knowledge of working-class conditions and diseases. In 1831-2 he acted as secretary to the Manchester Board of Health which was set up to combat the threatened cholera epidemic, and it is thanks in part to the devoted labours of Kay and his colleagues...

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