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
• Infant and Child Mortality in Late-Victorian Leeds
• The Economic Implications of Britain’s Malnourished Workers
• Eneas Dallas's leading article on the report of the Scottish Lunacy Commission
• Death of Children and the Victorian Novel
• The Working Classes
• Cosmetics

What Victorians Ate

• What the 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
• 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 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

Disease

• Sitemap
• Bacteriology & the Germ Theory of Disease
• Health, Hygiene, and Contagious Diseases
• Cholera
• Puerperal Fever
• Tuberculosis (Consumption)
• Typhus

Medicine and Medical Care

• Medicine and Medical Care (sitemap)
• Victorian Medical Education
• Victorian Hospitals
• Medical Care
• Medical Developments
• Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Age of Victoria
• Medicine and Public Health in Victorian Literature and the Arts
• Amateur Doctors and Patent Medicines

Disability and Disability Studies

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

Dangerous Occupations

• Robbed of “twenty-five years of existence” — Sheffield’s cutlery damages worker's health
• Murderous Majolica: The Human Cost of Bringing Art and Design to the Masses
• “Possibly the most murderous mining conditions in the world” — Cornish copper & tin mines
• Coal Mining: Suffocation, Fire, and Explosions

Related material

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