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Edwin Chadwick plaque

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This commemorative plaque records: Edwin Chadwick 1800-1890 Poor Law and sanitary reformer and administrator was born in a cottage on this site Recorded plaque organisation: Manchester City Council.
Sir Edwin Chadwick was a prominent social reformer who significantly influenced public health and sanitation policies in Victorian England, most notably through his seminal work "Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain" (1842), which led to major sanitary reforms.

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