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REPORTS ON THE STATES OF TOWNS, Was secretary to the board of Health.Kay…
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Was secretary to the board of Health.Kay personally visited each district (14) to investigate the conditions there.
Kay's report was one of the first on a specific group of working people.
He was one of the first to make a connection between dirt and disease.
He also assessed the moral condition of the poor as he suggested that 'dirty habits' led to dirty living.
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Chadwick was secretary to this report. Sir James Graham asked for the report to be extended to the whole of the labouring population in the UK and not just London.
However, Chadwick had to publish the report under his own name and at his own expenses. As the Poor Law commissioners did not allow it as he attacked the water companies.
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Home secretary James Graham was reluctant to act on what was a purely private and personal report.
He set up a royal commission into to the health of towns to more fully investigate the financial side of Chadwick's argument.
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