Medicine and the Workhouse
(Part of the Rochester Studies in Medical History Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1580464483
ISBN13:9781580464482
Release Date:October 2013
Publisher:University of Rochester Press
Length:290 Pages
Weight:1.23 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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