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1998-01-22T00:00:00

Our Victorian ancestors were obsessed with public health. But then, few things concentrate the mind quite as much as the prospect of regular and deadly outbreaks of contagious disease. And unlike the health scares of the 1990s, those of the 1830s and 1840s were particularly real in nature.

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