 "Wakefield Express (Wakefield, England)")
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Wakefield's the best small city.
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WAKEFIELD has scored a first after being named the nation's top business-friendly small city.
In Britain's Best Cities Survey, carried out by Occupier Market and Intelligence Service (OMIS), Wakefield beat rivals Bradford, Nottingham, Southampton and Aberdeen to take the prestigious title.
Britain's Best Cities is a biennial research project of chief executive officers and senior executives of major companies located in 28 cities across the country. The latest survey of over 5,000 business leaders was carried out between August and November 2005 and showed ...
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Birth of Sir Edwin Chadwick.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today
; January 24th, 1800 EDWIN CHADWICK WAS a civil servant...into workhouses, though Chadwick was dissatisfied because...boards of guardians. Chadwick was a lifelong advocate...trained expert officials. `Sir,' he once magisterially...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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A need for tough love in the time of cholera.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...call anyone the inventor of public health it was Sir Edwin Chadwick, one of Victorian Britain's unsung heroes. Interfering...to see him get knotted than get knighted), but Edwin Chadwick probably saved more lives that all the fire-brigades...
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Health, government, and Irving Fisher.
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
; ...public health movement in England led by Sir Edwin Chadwick, a follower of Jeremy Bentham. Chadwick, along with Nassau W. Senior, produced...health and safety. Throughout his life, Chadwick gave particular emphasis to improvements...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Alexander Wilson, ornithologist, 1766; Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder...off Port Morant, Jamaica 1781; Sir William Jackson Hooker, botanist...Narcisse Guerin, painter, 1833; Sir Edwin Chadwick, physician and sanitary pioneer...
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Weekend - Victorian Health: Dickensian doctors clean up their act; As the tide of the Industrial Revolution swept across Britain, things were far from rosy. Cramped, dirty cities allowed diseases to ravage the population. But modern medicine and key hygiene advances were beginning to save lives, as Mel Hunter explains.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...the lot of the working classes in industrial cities, Sir Edwin Chadwick prepared a report which was received by Parliament with...to be one of the cornerstones of health care today. Chadwick introduced glazed earthenware pipes for sewage which...
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Now and Then
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...Allen, comedian. Deaths: 1189 King Henry II; 1535 Sir Thomas More, statesman and Lord Chancellor (executed); 1553 King Edward VI; 1890 Sir Edwin Chadwick, physician and sanitary pioneer; 1932 Kenneth Grahame...
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THE ALMANAC
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...the Great of Prussia in 1712; British social reformer Sir Edwin Chadwick in 1800; author Edith Wharton in 1862; abstract painter...the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a general in the British Army...
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The Almanac.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...the Great of Prussia in 1712; British social reformer Sir Edwin Chadwick in 1800; author Edith Wharton in 1862; abstract painter...the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a general in the British Army...
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The blue death: disease, disaster, and the water we drink.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Clinical Investigation
; ...contaminated by the waste of other cholera sufferers. He accomplished this feat in the face of intense opposition from Sir Edwin Chadwick, a champion of the Sanitarian movement and a strong proponent of the notion that cholera spread by foul odors and...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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JDW plans to offer a good brew in the loo.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...built a new one 30 yards away. The new pub will open in April 2001. In nearby Longsight, JDW has a pub named after Sir Edwin Chadwick, the 19th century reformer who improved public sanitation. With singular lack of imagination, the ex-toilet...
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