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
    — floating baths, Thames [ILN Picture Library] 
    — gas baths
    — Greenwich Baths and Laundries 
    — how to clean sponges
    — Lambeth Baths 
    — Old Royal Baths
    — Oriental Baths, Victoria Street
    — public bathing outdoors
    — public baths
    — rocking baths [1]  [2] (1891)
    — St. Marylebone Public Baths 
            and Washhouses 

    — sea-water bathing
    — Shoreditch Baths 
    — 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)
    — 'management of the skin'
    — 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
    — '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
    — British Lying-in Hospital,
           Brownlow Street, Drury Lane,
            (for poor married women)
    — Cancer Hospital, Fulham
    — Central Opthalmic Hospital
    — Charing Cross Hospital
    — City of London Lying-in Hospital, City Road
            ( for poor married women)
    — conditions in hospitals
    — Chelsea Hospital
    — City Orthopoedic Hospital
    — Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum
    — Consumption Hospital, Brompton
    — The Dreadnought
    — East London Hospital for Sick Children (1) 
            (2 ILN Picture Library) (3 ILN Picture Library)
    — Evelina Hospital for Sick Children (1) (2)
    — Fever Hospital, Islington
    — Foundling Hospital
    — French Hospital
    — The General Lying-in Hospital, York Road,
           Westminster Bridge (for poor married women)
    — German Hospital
    — German Jews' Hospital, 
            ?see Jews' Hospital, below?
    — Great Northern Hospital
    — Great Ormond Street Hospital for 
            Sick Children 

    — Greenwich Hospital and Royal Naval College
    — Guy's Hospital
    — Hampstead Smallpox Hospital 
            (ILN Picture Library) 

    — 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 alsoQuackery, 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
    — Surrey County Asylum (Wandsworth)
§  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 Buildings - Stoke Newington Works 
                      (ILN Picture Library) 

    see also Housing - Housing of the Poor
   
see also Professions - Cleaning, Rubbish 
    — cesspools
    — cisterns and water storage
    — 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 (1) (2)
    — Water Companies
    — water supply
    — water supply in winter