Thomas Southwood Smith FRCP (1788–1861): Leading Exponent of Diseases of Poverty and Pioneer of Sanitary Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Anonymous. Death of Dr. Southwood Smith. BMJ 1861; ii: 676

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Anonymous. Use of the dead to the living. Westminster Review 1824; 2: 59–97

Anonymous. Contagion and sanitary laws. Westminster Review 1825; 3: 134–67

Anonymous. Plague — typhus fever — quarantine. Westminster Review 1825; 3: 499–530

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Smith S. A Treatise on Fever. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830: 436

Singer C Underwood EA . The revolution in preventive medicine. In: A Short History of Medicine, 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960: 208–36

Anonymous. An Act for promoting the Public Health. 11 & 12 Victoriae, Cap. 63. 31 August 1848: 721–88

Anonymous. An Act to renew and amend an Act of the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, for the more speedy Removal of Certain Nuisances, and the Prevention of contagious and epidemic Diseases. 11 & 12 Victoriae, Cap. 123. 4 September 1848: 1285–1303

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Anonymous. An Act to consolidate, and continue in force for Two Years and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Metropolitan Commissions of Sewers. 11 & 12 Victoriae, Cap. 112. 4 September 1848: 1113–74

Anonymous. An Act for confirming certain Provincial Orders of the General Board of Health, and for other Matters relative to the Public Health and the Improvement of Towns and populous Places. 12 & 13 Victoriae, Cap. 94. 1 August 1849: 407–8

Anonymous. An Act to amend the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848. 12 & 13 Victoriae, Cap. 111. 1 August 1849: 625–9

Ball JM . The Sack-'Em-Up Men: An Account of the Rise and Fall of the Modern Resurrectionists. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1928: 216

Richardson R. Death, Dissection and the Destitute. London: Penguin, 1988: 426

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Anonymous. An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy. 2 & 3 William the Fourth, Cap. 75. 1 August 1832: 535–9

Smith S. A Lecture Delivered Over the Remains of Jeremy Bentham, Esq., in the Webb-Street School of Anatomy & Medicine, on the 9th of June, 1832. London: Effingham Wilson, 1832

Marmoy CFA . The “auto-icon” of Jeremy Bentham at University College, London. Med Hist 1958; 2: 77–86

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Smith TS . Disputatio medica inauguralis quaedem de Mente Morbis Laesa. Edinburgh: Excudebant Abernethy & Walker, 1816: 52

Smith S. The Philosophy of Health; or, An Exposition of the Physical and Mental Constitution of Man, with a View to the Promotion of Human Longevity and Happiness. London: Charles Knight, 1835: 408 448

Smith S. Results of Sanitary Improvement, Illustrated by the Operation of the Metropolitan Societies for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, the Working of the Common Lodging-Houses Act, etc. London: Charles Knight, 1854

Smith S. Epidemics Considered with Relation to Their Common Nature, and to Climate and Civilization. In Two Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, November 1855. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1856

Baker T , Ed. The Common Nature of Epidemics, and Their Relation to Climate and Civilisation. Also Remarks on Contagion and Quarantine. From Writings and Official Reports by Southwood Smith, M.D. London: N Trübner & Co., 1866: 130

Brockington CF . Public health at the Privy Council, 1858–71. Medical Officer 1959; 101: 173–7, 185–90, 197–200, 211–15, 243–6, 259–60, 278–80, 287–90

Cook GC Webb AJ . Perceptions of malaria transmission before Ross' discovery in 1897. Postgrad Med J 2000; 76: 738–40