David Lennox, Working class life in Dundee, 1878-1903, 1928.

Typescript in two volumes of David Lennox, Working Class Life in Dundee for twenty five years: 1878 to 1903.

Volume I: Analysis.

Volume II: 306 Statistical Tables.

The intention of the author in Volume I is less to give an historical account of 'Working Class Life' than to provide a sociological explanation for a wide range of 'working class' conditions and circumstances using data derived from various Dundee sources which is laid out in the tables in Volume II.

The headings addressed are:-

• Modern Sources of Population.
• Anthropological data including analysis of recruiting returns.
• Climate and water supply.
• Vital statistics including medical aspects of tobacco and alcohol.
• Chief occupations and wage groups.
• Housing conditions.
• Food, Clothing.
• Provident arrangements.
• Education.
• Unemployment.
• Pauperism.
• Drunkenness and Crime.

David Lennox, lecturer in Forensic Medicine, University College, Dundee.

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Presented to the University by the author, 21 May 1928.

Call number used to be ms61

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Binding: quarter calf vellum and cloth boards by Cockerell (May 1954).Title in black ink lettering on spine together with volume number and classmark. Binder's note at the back of each volume.Paper: Volume I: 21x2 6.7cm; Volume II between 20.7x26.6cm and 21x33.2cm

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