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Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828 - 1896), Doctor English, is the author of many work on medicine and the Public health. One off owes him the creation of the Journal Public Health and Sanitary Review (1855-1859) and of the Social Science Review (1862).

In 1876 appears a work entitled Hygeia, off has city Health (1876) in which it presents a utopian city, having for main objective to guarantee the Hygiène, where the green areas and the hospital hold a privileged place, where the houses, perfectly aired, have of terasses on the roofs, a kitchen of a cleanliness meticulous person and a bathroom with warm water and cold.

This tradition utopian, present at a certain number of authors (Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, Etienne Cabet, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, etc) is prolonged later at Jules Verne which describes in the Five Hundred Million the Begum (1879) a hygienic city, Franceville, then at Herbert George Wells which presents in has Modern Utopia (1905, a vision hygienist on the scale of planet. Richardson became member of the Royal Society the June 6th 1867.

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