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--which was called "The Report on the Sanitary Condition
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of the Labouring Population of Great Britain of 1842."
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Now, Chadwick wasn't a physician at all,
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and this is part of the background perhaps to the thesis
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I was mentioning earlier.
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He was instead a lawyer by training from Manchester.
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And he was already well known, in particular
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--for his reform of welfare provisions in Britain;
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that is, he was responsible in large part, for the passage,
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from the old poor law, which had provided relief
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as the birthright of every citizen in distress;
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that is, the right to some form of assistance