Food in Nineteenth-Century British History

VOLUME II DIET AND HEALTH

Series Preface
General Editors' Introduction
Volume II Introduction

PART 1: Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Diet
1 A Sketch of the Hours of Labour, Mealtimes, &c &c &c in Manchester and its Neighbourhood
2 The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester
J. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH
3 The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
F. ENGELS
4 Distress in Manchester: Evidence of the State of the Labouring Classes in 1840-42
J. ADSHEAD
5 London Labour and the London Poor Volume One: The London Street Folk
H. MAYHEW
6 London Labour and the London Poor Volume Two: The London Street Folk
H. MAYHEW

PART 2: Stomachs, Digestion and Indigestion7 Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion
W. BEAUMONT
8 Through St. Martin's Window
9 How is Digestion Carried On?
10 Bacchus: An Essay on the Nature, Causes, Effects and Cure of Temperance
R. B. GRINDROD
11 Dr Abernethy's Code of Health and Long Life with the Cause and Cure of Indigestion; Everyone His Own Physician
J. ABERNETHY
12 Memoirs of a Stomach
S. WHITING
13 Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration Volume One

PART 3: Nutritional Science
14 Liebig's Extract of Meat
15 Food for Infants: A Complete Substitute for that Provided by Nature
J. VON LIEBIG
16 Liebig's Extract of Meat
E. SMITH
17 Practical Dietary for Families, Schools and the Labouring Classes
E. SMITH
18 Food of the People: A Letter to Henry Fenwick, Esq. M.P.
J. BROWN

PART 4: Adulteration19 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons
F. ACCUM
20 Adulteration of Food, Drink and Drugs being the Evidence taken before the Parliamentary Committee
21 Adulteration of Food: A Fearful Prospect
22 Adulteration of Bread
23 Adulteration of Food: Drink and Tobacco
24 Dreadful Poisoning at Bradford: Thirteen Persons Dead
25 The Poisoned Lozenges at Bradford
26 The Bradford Poisoned Lozenge Case
27 The Adulteration of Bread
28 Leeds Grocers and Tea Dealers on Adulteration
29 The Adulteration Prosecutions

PART 5: Infant Mortality and the Milk Supply
30 Observations on the London Milk Supply
H. H. RUGG
31 The Municipalization of the Milk Supply
32 Infantile Mortality and Infants Milk Depots
G. F. MCCLEARY
33 A Report on the Milk Supply of Large Towns: Its Defects and their Remedy VI: Sterilised and 'Humanised' Milk for Infants in England

PART 6: Excessive Tea Drinking34 A View of the Nervous Temperament
T. TROTTER
35 Tea and Coffee: Their Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effects on the Human System
W. A. ALCOTT
36 Tea and Tea Drinking
A. READE
37 Tea-Drinking
38 Tea and Tea Drinkers
39 Editorial, Coffee Public House News and Temperance Hotel Journal

PART 7: Making Water Safe
40 The Dolphin or Grand Junction Nuisance: Proving that Seven Thousand Families in Westminster and its Suburbs are Supplied with Water in a State Offensive to the Sight, Disgusting to the Imagination and Destructive to Health
41 An Investigation of the Properties of Thames Water
W. LAMBE
42 Memoir on the Organic Analysis or Microscopic Examination of Water
A. H. HASSALL
43 The Wonders of a London Water Drop
44 Water and Alcohol: The Two Great Rivals Considered Physiologically and Chemically
E. R. H. UNGER

Bibliography
Index