John Bowen Of Bridgwater

Medicine and the Workhouse

• Author(s): Jonathan Reinarz, Leonard Schwarz

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013
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• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates wereelderly and infirm, needing not only accommodation and work but also medical relief. Historians of welfare, the English poor laws, and medicine have been aware of the importance of workhouse-based medicine, but the topic hasnot been studied in depth. This volume is the first to examine th...

Somerset Archaeology and Natural History

• Author(s): Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society

• Categories: Archaeology

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Workhouse

• Author(s): Kathryn Morrison

• Categories: Architecture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1999
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• Publisher: Historic England Press

This study traces how changes in poor law legislation in England affected the buildings associated with the poor, highlighting both architectural aspects and also social repercussions.

The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. 1st-4th, 6th, 12th-18th, 20th-58th, 60th ed

• Author(s): Edward Walford

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1893
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Parliamentary Papers

• Author(s): Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

• Categories: Great Britain

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1838
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• Publisher: Unknown

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