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See also:SIR See also:EDWIN See also:CHADWICK (18o0-1890)
, See also:English sanitary reformer, was See also:born at Longsight, near See also:Manchester, on the 24th of See also:January 1800
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Called to the See also:bar without any See also:independent means, he sought to support himself by See also:literary See also:work, and his essays in the See also:Westminster See also:Review (mainly on different methods of applying scientific knowledge to the business of See also:government) introduced him to the See also:notice of See also:Jeremy See also:Bentham, who engaged him as a literary assistant and See also:left him a handsome See also:legacy
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In 1832 he was employed by the royal See also:commission appointed to inquire into the operation of the poor See also:laws, and in 1833 he was made a full member of that See also:body
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In See also:conjunction with See also:Nassau W
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See also:Senior he drafted the celebrated See also:report of 1834 which procured the reform of the old poor See also:law
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His See also:special contribution was the institution of the See also:union as the See also:area of See also:administration
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He favoured, however, a much more centralized See also:system of administration than was adopted, and he never ceased to complain that the reform of 1834 was fatally marred by the rejection of his views, which contemplated the management of poor-law See also:relief by salaried See also:officers controlled from a central See also:board, the boards of guardians acting merely as inspectors
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In 1834 he was appointed secretary to the poor law commissioners
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Finding himself unable to administer in accordance with his own views an See also:act of which he was largely the author, his relations with his See also:official chiefs became much strained, and the disagreement led, among other causes, to the See also:dissolution of the poor law commission in 1846
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See also:Chadwick's See also:chief contribution to See also:political controversy was his See also:constant advocacy of entrusting certain departments of See also:local affairs to trained and selected experts, instead of to representatives elected on the principle of local self-government
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While still officially connected with the poor law he had taken up the question of sanitation in conjunction with Dr Southwood See also: He was a See also:commissioner of the Board of Health from its See also:establishment in 1848 to its abolition in 1854, when he retired upon a See also:pension, and occupied the See also:remainder of his See also:life in voluntary contributions to sanitary and economical questions . He died at See also:East Sheen, See also:Surrey, on the 6th of See also:July 189o . He had been made K.C.B. in x889 . See a See also:volume on The Evils of Disunity in Central and Local Ad-ministration . . . and the New Centralization for the See also:People, by See also:CHAERONEIA See also:Edwin Chadwick . (1885); also The Health of Nations, a Review of the See also:Works of Edwin Chadwick, with a See also:Biographical Introduction, by See also:Sir B . W . See also:Richardson (1887) . |
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