Light into Dark Places: A history of women sanitary Inspectors in Sheffield 1889 - 1919

We have rediscovered the importance of public health and, as ever, have been made to realise the important lessons that history has to teach us - how in the politics of public health, wealth and power shape ideas and action. Lee Adams, a former public health practitioner in the city, has drawn inspiration from first hand challenges in overcoming barriers to public health, and from her forebears: women pioneers of public health.

Women like Florence Greenwood, who in 1902 argued that women bei...