The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1841-1850
Theme(s):
social issues
To THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH,1 [?20] FEBRUARY 1846
Envelope only, Facsimile in International Autograph Auctions online catalogue, February 2013
PM 20 February 1846
Address: Dr. Southwood Smith | 38 Finsbury Square
- 1. Thomas Southwood Smith, MD (1788-1861), sanitary reformer. MD 1816; Unitarian minister at Yeovil, simultaneously practising medicine, 1816-20. Published Illustrations of the Divine Government, Glasgow, 1816. From 1820 practised medicine in London. One of the original Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1825. He was main founder of the Health of Towns Association 1839. In 1841 Lord Normanby, the Home Secretary, used Smith's evidence to support his Drainage of Buildings Bill (shelved on the Government's defeat).