Contents: Body and city: medical and urban histories of public health, Sally Sheard and Helen Power; Ritual and public health in the early medieval city, Peregrine Horden; Languages of plague in early modern France, Colin Jones; Copenhagen 1711: Danish authorities facing the plague, Peter Christensen; Fighting for public health: Dr. Duncan and his adversaries, 1847-63, Paul Laxton; Town hall and Whitehall: sanitary intelligence in Liverpool, 1840-63, Gerry Kearns; Working-class experiences, cholera and public health reform in 19th-century Switzerland, Flurin Condrau and Jakob Tanner; Public health discourses in Birmingham and Gothenburg, 1890 -1920, Marjaana Niemi; Choices for town councillors in nineteenth-century Britain: investment in public health and its impact on mortality, Robert Millward and Frances Bell; Economics and infant mortality decline in German towns, 1889-1912: household behaviour and public intervention, John Brown; The decline of the urban penalty: milk supply and infant welfare centres in Germany, 1890s-1920s, Jörg Peter Vögele, Wolfgang Woelk and Silke Fehlemann; Index.