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==Medicine== * May 16 β [[St Bernard's Hospital, Hanwell|Middlesex County Asylum]] for pauper lunatics opens at [[Hanwell]] near London under the humane superintendence of [[William Charles Ellis]]. * Dr [[Charles Thackrah|C. Turner Thackrah]] publishes ''The Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, and of Civic States and Habits of Living, on Health and Longevity, with a particular reference to the trades and manufactures of Leeds, and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce disease and shorten the duration of life'', a pioneering study of [[Occupational health|occupational]] and [[public health]] in a newly industrialised English city.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tristram|last=Hunt|authorlink=Tristram Hunt|title=Building Jerusalem: the rise and fall of the Victorian city|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2004|isbn=0-297-60767-7}}</ref>
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