Merchant Seamen's Health, 1860-1960

Discusses the many measures taken in this period to improve seamen''s health and fitness.

This book examines successive campaigns fought by reformers to improve seamen''s health and fitness, sometimes aided by, often opposed by, bureaucracies and vested interests, such as ship-owners. It shows how these campaigns originated; how reformers, bureaucracies and vested interests interacted; and how far ...