Second Report Commissioners Appointed by Author Unknown (7 results)

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Half-Cloth. Condition: Very Good++. No Jacket. Limited Edition. (viii) + 56pp. Limited edition (#72 of 100). Paper-covered marbled boards with maroon cloth backstrip and corners and gilt lettering to spine, in a clear plastic cover, eps marbled as boards. Facsimile edition of 1872 original, published by Thuleprint in 1978. Some rubbing to plastic cover, light edgewear, otherwise excellent. New introduction by Hance D. Smith. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents the second report from a commission appointed to investigate the health of the metropolis. Published in the wake of multiple epidemics, the book examines the unsanitary conditions that promoted the spread of disease in the mid-1800s. It comprehensively explores the nature of cholera, challenging prevailing theories about the spread of disease through contagion. The author argues that these epidemics were largely caused by environmental factors like moisture and fog, overcrowded living conditions, and a lack of proper sanitation. The book's detailed examination of disease demonstrates the importance of eradicating these conditions to improve public health. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Thuleprint, Sandwick, Shetland, 1978 being a facsimile reprint, and with a new introduction by Hance Smith, of the original printed in Edinburgh by Murray and Gibb for HMSO, 1872. Folio, pp viii, 56; this is number 79 of a limited edition of 100 hand bound copies; quarter maroon buckram, spine gilt, marbled boards, the binding designed by Jenny Gunn; fine copy. The truck system, one of paying wages in kind rather than with money, was a national rather than a purely local approach and had been addressed by the Truck Act of 1831 which basically prohibited the payment of wages in kind. However, by 1872 there were concerns that the system still continued in different areas and a Commission was established which held sittings around the UK to take evidence. Shetland wasn't unique in this regards but its main industries were fishing and hosiery and knitwear production, together with kelp gathering, crofting and other minor economic activities, and there were therefore understandable reasons relating to the need for credit and, in the case of fish merchants, access to steady supplies. These circumstances together with the general and long established practice of barter in a subsistence economy meant that aspects of the truck system continued. According to the introduction by Smith this very readable report, drawing on evidence gathered in the same year as the publication of Marx's "Capital" and at a time when Shetland society was on the cusp of economic change, remains very relevant in the economic conditions prevailing today well beyond Shetland itself.…