The Sick and Incurable in Workhouses
Author | : Workhouse Visiting Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1863* |
Genre | : Workhouses |
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Author | : Workhouse Visiting Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1863* |
Genre | : Workhouses |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1865 |
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Author | : Elliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Incurables |
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Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1865 |
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Author | : Edward Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Almshouses |
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Author | : Alistair Ritch |
Publisher | : Rochester Studies in Medical H |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1580469752 |
England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I.By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the idea that medical care was invariably of poor quality and brought little benefit to patients. Medical staff in the workhouses labored under severe restraints and grappled with the immense health issues facing their patients. Sickness in the Workhouse brings to life this hidden group of workhouse staff and highlights their significance within the local health economy. Among other things, as the author notes, workhouses needed to provide medical care for nonpaupers, such as institutional isolation facilities for those with infectious diseases. This groundbreaking books highlights these doctors and nurses in order to illuminate our understanding of this significant yet little understood area of poor law history.ALISTAIR RITCH was consultant physician in geriatric medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, and senior clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently honorary research fellow, History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, UK.
Author | : Louisa Twining |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Poor |
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Author | : Beatrice Webb |
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Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Paul Felix Aschrott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Old age pensions |
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Author | : Peter Higginbotham |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752477196 |
This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal part. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's best-known experts on the subject, this A-Z cornucopia covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Work-houses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse locations throughout the British Isles, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. Where was my local workhouse? What records did they keep? What is gruel and is it really what inmates lived on? How did you get out of a workhouse? What famous people were once workhouse inmates? Are there any workhouse buildings I can visit? If these are the kinds of questions you've ever wanted to know the answer to, then this is the book for you.