Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822

Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822

Author: John Ballard Blake

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780674722507

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Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town of Boston. A significant part of this study is the insight it offers into early attitudes toward disease and death as well as other basic political, social, and economic questions.