Health & Hygiene
§ Air and Ventilation
§ Baths and Bathing
— bathing advice (for the home) (1) (2)
— bathing advice (sea and river)
— bathing at Brighton (Cruikshank)
— bathrooms and bathing at home (1) (2)
— Greenwich Baths and Laundries
— rocking baths [1] [2] (1891)
§ Beauty, Health, Sanitary Products
— 'Harlene' [baldness cure, ad 1891] [another ad, 1892]
— 'Koko for the Hair' [ad. 1891]
§ Dentistry and Teeth
§ Disability
— 'At a Blind Beggars' Tea-Party'
— blind beggars and street-sellers
§ Exercise and Physiotherapy
§ Hazards and Accidents
§ Hospitals
see also list of hospitals and dispensaries below
see also Geoffrey Rivett on London Hospitals
— Consumption Hospital, Brompton
— East London Hospital for Sick Children
— Evelina Hospital for Sick Children (1) (2)
— Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children
— Greenwich Hospital and Royal Naval College
— Hospital for Diseases of the Chest (1) (2) (3, from ILN 1851)
— life in a London hospital (St. George's)
— list of hospitals and dispensaries
— list of hospitals and doctors
— London Homoeopathic Hospital
— Marylebone and Paddington Hospital
— Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum - see Hanwell, and Colney Hatch, above
— National Orthopoedic Hospital
— North London Hospital, see University College Hospital
— Order of St. John of Jerusalem
— Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital
— Royal Hospital for Incurables
— Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital
— Samaritan Free Hospital for Women ahd Children
— Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital
§ Laundries, Washing & Cleaning
— 'laundries' (Dickens's Dictionary)
— laundry maids and washing at home
§ Light
§ Medical Advice, Cures and Technology
see also Professions - Medical
see also Quackery, below
— invalid carriages and chairs
— invalid cookery (Mrs. Beeton) (1) (2)
§ Mental Health
§ Mortality
— amongst illegitimate children
— in Bethnal Green, 1848 and earlier [and Hackney, Poplar, Shoreditch, Whitechapel]
§ Pollutants and Refuse
see also Weather - Smoke and Weather - Fog
— animal waste, manure, dung (1) (2) (3)
§ Quackery
§ Sewers and Sanitation
see also Buildings - Abbey Mills
see also Buildings - Crossness
see also Housing - Housing of the Poor
see also Professions - Cleaning, Rubbish
— disposal of London's rubbish
— drainage of houses (1) (2) (3)
— drinking fountains and cattle troughs (1) (2)
— earth closets, privies (1) (2)
— house cleaning, white-wash etc
— refuse/rubbish collection; (see also Dustmen)