Working Class Life in Dundee for Twenty Five Years, 1878-1903.

Copy typescript of a social study carried out by Dr David Lennox, Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, University of St Andrews, late Recruiting Medical Officer, Dundee. Consists of text and considerable tabular material relating to such topics as: climate and water supply, medical aspects of tobacco and alcohol, occupations, housing conditions, food, clothing etc., provident arrangements, education, unemployment, pauperism, drunkenness and crime, anthropological data including analysis of recruiting returns.

Dr. David Lennox was Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the University of St Andrews, and Recruiting Medical Officer for Dundee. He compiled detailed statistical information on working class life in Dundee, but could not afford to publish the work. In 1928-1929 the University Court of St Andrews agreed to pay the cost of binding the typescript and placed it in the University Library for use by students.

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Dr. David Lennox was Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the University of St Andrews, and Recruiting Medical Officer for Dundee. He compiled detailed statistical information on working class life in Dundee, but could not afford to publish the work. In 1928-1929 the University Court of St Andrews agreed to pay the cost of binding the typescript and placed it in the University Library for use by students.

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