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Health & Hygiene

see also Food - Adulteration

see also Professions - Medical

 

§ Air and Ventilation

see also Disease - Miasma

— value of ozone

— ventilation of rooms (1) (2)

§ 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)

— baths and wash-houses

— douches / showers

— gas baths

— Greenwich Baths and Laundries

— how to clean sponges

— Lambeth Baths

— Old Royal Baths

— public bathing outdoors

— public baths

— rocking baths [1]  [2] (1891)

— St. Marylebone Public Baths and Washhouses

— sea-water bathing

— Shoreditch Baths

— shower

— Turkish Baths

— Wandsworth Baths

§ Beauty, Health, Sanitary Products

— 'ablutions of the face'

— breath

— 'complexion-colour'

— cosmetic surgery

— cosmetics

— depilation

— 'disorders of the skin'

— ears

— electrolysis (advert, 1893)

— eyes

— face-powder

— feet

— freckles

— hair care for men

— hair care for women

— hair styling

— hands (1) (2)

— 'Harlene' [baldness cure, ad 1891] [another ad, 1892]

— 'Koko for the Hair' [ad. 1891]

— lips

— 'making-up' (1) (2)

— nose

— perfumes, toilet-water, soap

— sanitary towels (1896 ad.)

— skin cream

— spots

— sunburn

— warts

— wearing make-up

— wrinkles

§ Dentistry and Teeth

— children's teeth

— cleaning/ tooth-paste

— dentist's shop

— 'Domestic Surgery'[Cassells]

— 'extracted by electricity' (advertisement, 1893)

— false teeth

— tartar

— tooth-ache

— tooth-powders

§ Disease - see Disease

§ Disability

see also Charities

— 'The Artificial Man'

— 'At a Blind Beggars' Tea-Party'

— blind beggars and street-sellers

— a blind fiddler

— blind reader

— blind street musicians (1) (2)

— crippled children

— Deaf and Dumb Asylum

— deafness 

— guide-dogs

— "Hookey Alf"

— man without hands

— paralysed

— "Powder Dick" 

— School for the Indigent Blind

§ Exercise and Physiotherapy

— 'Calisthenics for Ladies'

— 'gymnastic exercises' (1) (2)

— Sandow Institute (1) (2)

— value of exercise (1) (2)

— value of walking

§ Hazards and Accidents

— causes of fires

— chimney fires

— fires in theatres

— fog, cause of accidents

— 'nuisances' (Dickens's Dictionary)

— riding accidents

— streets

§ Hospitals

see also list of hospitals and dispensaries below

see also Geoffrey Rivett on London Hospitals

— Aske's Hospital

— Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam)

— British Home for Incurables

— Cancer Hospital, Fulham

— Central Opthalmic Hospital

— Charing Cross Hospital

— conditions in hospitals

— Chelsea Hospital

— City Orthopoedic Hospital

— Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum

— Consumption Hospital, Brompton

— The Dreadnought

— East London Hospital for Sick Children

— Evelina Hospital for Sick Children (1) (2)

— Fever Hospital, Islington

— Foundling Hospital

— French Hospital

— German Hospital

— Great Northern Hospital

— Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children

— Greenwich Hospital and Royal Naval College

— Guy's Hospital

— Hanwell Lunatic Asylum

— Hospital for Diseases of the Chest (1) (2) (3, from ILN 1851)

— Jews' Hospital

— King's College Hospital

— life in a London hospital (St. George's)

— list of hospitals and dispensaries

— list of hospitals and doctors

— Lock Hospital

— London Fever Hospital 1803

— London Homoeopathic Hospital

— The London Hospital 1740

— London Opthalmic Hospital

— Magdalen Hospital 1758

— Marylebone and Paddington Hospital

— Mesmeric Infirmary (London) 

— Metropolitan Free Hospital

— Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum - see Hanwell, and Colney Hatch, above

— Middlesex Hospital 1745

— National Orthopoedic Hospital

— North London Hospital, see University College Hospital

— Opthalmic Hospital

— Order of St. John of Jerusalem

— Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital

— Royal Free Hospital

— Royal Hospital for Incurables

— Royal Infirmary

— Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

— Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital

— Samaritan Free Hospital for Women ahd Children

— Seamen's Hospital Society

— Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital

— St. Bartholomew's Hospital

— St. George's Hospital

— St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics

— St. Mark's Hospital

— St. Mary's Hospital

— St. Thomas's Hospital

— University College Hospital

— Westminster Hospital

— Woodford Hall convalescent home

§ Laundries, Washing & Cleaning

— carpet-sweeper

— 'laundries' (Dickens's Dictionary)

— laundry maids and washing at home

— laundresses

— mangling

— wash-houses

— washing clothes, advice

— washing at home versus sending out

— washing machines

§ Light

— light in the home

— value of sunlight

§ Medical Advice, Cures and Technology

see also Professions - Medical

see also Quackery, below

— the 'Acoustic Fan'

— ambulances 

— 'domestic medicine'

— 'Domestic Surgery'

— drowning

— face massage (1893)

— first aid (Mrs. Beeton)

— hydropathy

— invalid carriages and chairs

— invalid cookery (Mrs. Beeton) (1) (2)

— leeches

— massage

— mesmerism 

— nursing the sick (Mrs. Beeton) 

— pills

— 'Psychopathy'

— treating chapped skin

— treating chilblains

— treating corns

— treating hay-fever

— treating inflammations

— treating insomnia

— treating migraines

— treating stings

— water & air bed (advert, 1899)

§ Mental Health

— Bethlehem Hospital

— Colney Hatch Asylum (Middlesex)

— Hanwell Asylum (Middlesex)

— Lunatic asylums (1) (2)

— 'A Lunatic Ball'

— 'madmen'

— 'March Hare'

— Metropolitan Asylums Board

— police duties (1903)

— St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics

§ Mortality

— amongst illegitimate children

— in 1850

— in 1897

— in Bethnal Green, 1848 and earlier [and Hackney, Poplar, Shoreditch, Whitechapel]

— deaths per thousand (1878)

§ Pollutants and Refuse

see also Weather - Smoke and Weather - Fog

— air pollution and health

— animal waste, manure, dung (1) (2) (3)

— ashes

— dead animals

— factory and industrial pollution

— knackers' yards

— night soil

— slaughterhouses

— slops, cleaning out in houses

§ Quackery

— advertisements, various

— 'cough drops and medical confectionary' (1) (2) (3)

— pills

— quacks (1) (2)

— street-doctors (1) (2) (3)

§  Spitting

§ Sewers and Sanitation

see also Buildings - Abbey Mills

see also Buildings - Crossness

see also Housing - Housing of the Poor

see also Professions - Cleaning, Rubbish 

— cesspools

— cisterns and water storage

— cockroaches

— condition of the Thames

— condition of water

— 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

— ignorance of sanitation

— New River

— public toilets and urinals

— pump (cartoon, Punch 1859)

— refuse/rubbish collection; (see also Dustmen)

— sanitary condition of London

— sewers

— springs and wells

— stand-pipes

— street-cleaning

— Water Companies

— water carts

— water supply

— water supply in winter