Health and Nutrition

• Victorian attitudes towards Health
• The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers
• Health & Victorian Criticism
• Food and Famine in Victorian Literature
• Come Buy, Come Buy — Food Adulteration and "Goblin Market"
• What the Poor Ate
• Contaminated Milk in Victorian Britain
• Women & Children
• Death of Children and the Victorian Novel
• The Working Classes
• Cosmetics

Sanitation and the Environment

• The Victorian Environment: An Overview
• How Filthy Was London?
• Stained Glass and Gaslight — Darkness, Smog, and a Little Light in Victorian Cities
• Health and Hygiene
• From Inconvenience to Pollution — Redefining Sewage in The Victorian Age
• Sanitation and Its absence
• Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
• London Nightmen (cesspool-sewermen)
• Good Intentions, Unexpected Consequences: Thames Pollution of and The Great Stink of 1858
• Punch on Thames Pollution (1859)
• Poisoned Wallpaper
• The Navvy and Sanitation Reform

Substance abuse

• Addiction
• Alcoholism
• Narcotics

Medicine and medical care

• Adulteration and contamination of food
• Punch on the adulteration of food
• Medical care
• Medical Developments
• Nineteenth-Century British Medicine: Suggested Reading
• Recent Dissertations on Women's History and Health Care
• Henry Hattemer's Victorian medicine site
• Medicine and Public Health in Victorian Literature and the Arts

Important Individuals in Victorian Medicine

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)
• Francis Galton
• Joseph Lister (the elder), who perfected the microsope, discovering shape of blood corpuscles
• Joseph Lord Lister (1827-1912) and Antiseptic Surgery
• Florence Nightingale and Nursing
• Mary Seacole
• John Snow and waterborne disease
• Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)

Diseases

• Cholera
• Influenza
• Tuberculosis
• Typhoid
• Typhus

Related material

• Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
• The Wells and Camden Wash Houses and Baths. 1888. Hampstead, London, NW3