Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four
devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the
1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of
local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based
on a unique cache of documents, McLean's account exposes the
struggles between local and national government as they grappled
with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between policies
of laissez-faire and state intervention. Describing the efforts of
public health reformer Edwin Chadwick in conjunction with among
others, Prime Minister Lord Russell, Admiral Lord Cochrane and
local Plymouth leader Joseph Beer, McLean brings to life a vital
period in British social and political history with policy
consequences that reverberate today.
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