Primary
NLSL and NA have collections of the Annual Reports of the Medical Officers
of Health from 1873, as well as earlier Sanitary Committee Reports.
Basford Rural Sanitary Authority, Annual reports of the Medical Officer
of Health, 1874-94. Annual report of the Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector,
1874-78.
Seaton’s ‘A Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Borough of Nottingham’,
Nottingham, 1873 and Report to the Health Committee on measures required
for improvements of Narrow Marsh, 17 November 1882
B Arthur Whitelegge, MOH West Riding County Council, late MOH for Nottingham,
Hygiene and Public Health, 1890.
Philip Boobbyer, ‘Typhoid fever in midden towns’, Public Health (1896-7)
P Boobbyer, ‘Enteric Fever and Conservancy Methods’, Public Health (1896-7)
Wellcome Library, Transactions of the Society of Medical Officers
of Health (1885-6)
Nottingham University Library, Greenfield library, Annual Reports of the
Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society 1889-1910
NUM. Specific Reports from members of the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical
Society.
Secondary
Geoffrey Oldfield, ‘The fight for Public Health: the work of the Basford
Rural Sanitary Authority, 1874-1894’, Transactions of Thoroton Society,
Volume 79, 1975.
Miles Kipling, A Brief History of HM Inspectorate, Health and Safety Executive,
1979.
Denise Amos, ‘Nottingham’s health pioneer, Philip Boobbyer, Medical Officer
for the City of Nottingham, 1889-1929’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 69,
Autumn/Winter 2002.
Steve Sturdy, Sir (Benjamin) Arthur Whitelegge, Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Denise Amos, ‘Fighting disease and slum housing in Nottingham: the work
of three Victorian Medical Officers of Health, 1873-1929’, Transactions
of Thoroton Society, Volume 109, 2006.
There are also other related articles in Transactions of Thoroton Society,
Nottinghamshire Bibliography, under headings ‘Health and Medicine’ and ‘Public
Health’. |