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
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
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
- 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
Summary
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
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- Sickness in the WorkhousePoor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834–1914, pp. 227 - 229Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019