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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


The Municipal Reform Act did not go so far as this: it ...

The

Municipal Reform Act did not go

so far as this: it created 178 elected corporations, but with limited powers and little supervision from above.

London was reserved for separate treatment: even a Benthamite quailed before the magnitude of the metropolis, which was misgoverned by four counties, innumerable vestries and commissions, the Bailiff of Westminster, and the Company of the City of London. The field of the new municipalities was the police and good government of the towns.

They were allowed, though not compelled, to take over the duties of the Special Commissioners, and it was by the gradual assumption of these activities that the great municipalities mastered the problems of town life.

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That of all these problems health, in the widest sense, was the ...

That of all these problems

health, in the widest sense, was the most important, had been realized at the time of the cholera visitation, and the lesson was constantly ham

The Act of 1848 created a parallel Board of Health in Whitehall ...

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