Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pauperism and Sickness
- 1 From Acute Illness to Chronic Disability
- 2 Segregating Fever Patients
- 3 Controlling Disorderly Behavior
- 4 Day-to-day Doctoring
- 5 Medical Therapies
- 6 Poor Law Nursing
- 7 “Every Care and Kindness”: The Standard of Workhouse Medicine
- Appendix A Prevalence of Selected Infectious Diseases in Birmingham Workhouse on the Last Day of the First Week of Each Quarter for the Years 1877–80 and 1894–1911
- Appendix B Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected Weeks, 1851–56
- Appendix C List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham Infirmary in 1896
- Appendix D Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization Rates for Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and Wales, 1840–1911
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pauperism and Sickness
- 1 From Acute Illness to Chronic Disability
- 2 Segregating Fever Patients
- 3 Controlling Disorderly Behavior
- 4 Day-to-day Doctoring
- 5 Medical Therapies
- 6 Poor Law Nursing
- 7 “Every Care and Kindness”: The Standard of Workhouse Medicine
- Appendix A Prevalence of Selected Infectious Diseases in Birmingham Workhouse on the Last Day of the First Week of Each Quarter for the Years 1877–80 and 1894–1911
- Appendix B Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected Weeks, 1851–56
- Appendix C List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham Infirmary in 1896
- Appendix D Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization Rates for Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and Wales, 1840–1911
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Sickness in the WorkhousePoor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834–1914, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019