Health and Nutrition

• Victorian attitudes towards Health
• The Creation of Boards of Health
• The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers
• Health & Victorian Criticism
• Women & Children
• Maternity and Puerperal (Childbed) Fever
• Death of Children and the Victorian Novel
• The Working Classes
• Cosmetics

What Victorians Ate

• What the Poor Ate
• Contaminated Milk in Victorian Britain
• Food and Famine in Victorian Literature
• “Adulteration, and its Remedy” — an article in the 1860 Cornhill Magaizne
• Come Buy, Come Buy — Food Adulteration and "Goblin Market"

Sanitation and the Environment

• The Victorian Environment: An Overview
• How Filthy Was London?
• Kingsley, Millar, Chadwick on Poverty, Environment. and Epidemics
• Stained Glass and Gaslight — Darkness, Smog, and a Little Light in Victorian Cities
• Health and Hygiene
• Robbed of “twenty-five years of existence” — The Trades of Sheffield and their dangers to worker's health
• 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

Technological Solutions

• The Metropolitan Main Drainage (Processing Sewage)
• Bathhouses and Washhouses

Substance abuse

• Addiction
• Alcoholism
• Narcotics

Diseases

• Sitemap
• Bacteriology & the germ theory of disease
• Cholera
• Influenza
• Puerperal Fever
• Tuberculosis (Consumption)
• Typhoid
• Typhus

Medicine and medical care

• Medicine and medical care (sitemap)
• Victorian Medical Education
• Victorian Hospitals
• Medical care
• Medical Developments
• Medicine and Public Health in Victorian Literature and the Arts

Disability and disability studies

• "Language Is Our Rubicon": A Review of Jennifer Esmail's Reading Victorian Deafness

Related material

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