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2. A. Smith,The Wealth of Nations, i (London: Everyman, 1970), p. 73; P. W. J. Bartrip,The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), pp. 1–2.
3. Bartrip,The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades, pp. 1–2; Carter, ‘British occupational hygiene practice’, pp. 299–300. See also R. Porter,Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550–1860(London: Macmillan, 1987).
4. Wohl,Endangered Lives, p. 264.
5. Bartrip,The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades, p. 3.