@booklet {7529, title = {Hygeia: A City of Health}, year = {1876}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Robert Pemberton\&$\#$39;s\ The Happy Colony\ (1854).

}, month = {1876}, publisher = {Macmillan and Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Very detailed eutopia in an address to the Health Department of the Social Science Congress describing the healthy city of the future. Pollution controls on fires. Roof gardens. No carpets. No one smokes or drinks alcohol and everyone exercises. Factories out of town. Public laundries under state supervision; public street cleaning. Burial without embalming or a casket. Low houses. Railroads and sewage underground; roads all paved. No rooms underground. Publicly supervised slaughter houses. Model hospital. The author was a scientist and a leader of the temperance movement as well as a sanitation campaigner. The author says that he is suggesting only what is now easily possible. See also 1888 Richardson.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96)} }