Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public health.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Making Infectious Disease Surveillance
1. Finding Disease in the Victorian City
2. "These Bastard Laws": Infectious Disease, Liberty, and Localism
Part Two: Spaces of Risk and Opportunity
3. Sequestration and Permeability: Isolation Hospitals
4. "Combustible Material": Classrooms, Contract Tracing, and Following-Up
5. Disinfection, Domestic Space, and the Laboratory
6. Rules for Home Living: Tuberculosis and the Consumption of Self-Help
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index