Thanks everyone for your patience. For those of you who are vaguely
interested but don't have time to follow the leads provided by list members,
here are the interesting public health and equity landmarks of 1848:

World-wide cholera epidemic.
Uprisings in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Sicily, Milan, Naples, Parma, Rome,
Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest.
Start of Second Sikh war against British in India.
In the midst of the 1848 revolution in Germany, Rudolf Virchow founds the
medical journal Medical Reform (Medicinische Reform), and publishes his
classic "Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia," in which he
concludes that preserving health and preventing disease requires "full and
unlimited democracy".
Revolution in France, abdication of Louis Philippe, worker uprising in
Paris, and founding of The Second Republic, which creates a public health
advisory committee attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and
establishes network of local public health councils.
First Public Health Act in Britain, which creates a General Board of Health,
empowered to establish local boards of health to deal with the water supply,
sewerage, cemeteries, and control of "offensive trades," and also to conduct
surveys of sanitary conditions.
The newly formed American Medical Association sets up a Public Hygiene
Committee to address public health issues.
First Women's Rights Convention in the United States, at Seneca Falls.
Henry Thoreau publishes Civil Disobedience, to protest paying taxes to
support the United State's war against Mexico.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto

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