Medical care in the workhouses in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, 1834-1914
@inproceedings{Ritch2015MedicalCI,
title={Medical care in the workhouses in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, 1834-1914},
author={Alistair Ritch},
year={2015}
}This study of the medical role of the urban workhouses of Birmingham and Wolverhampton after the New Poor Law addresses the following questions: what were the standards of medical and nursing practice and what treatments were used to alleviate inmates’ suffering? It considers the nature of illnesses encountered covering acute non-infective illnesses, infectious disease and chronic disability, and highlights the important role the workhouse played in providing institutional care, especially in…
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- History, Medicine
- 2020
Analyzing the ways in which local-level poor law records reflect the contemporary understandings of bad nursing in England and Finland shows that in England, the workhouse system was established long before the emergence of the principles of medical nursing in the 1850s, which is why the evolution of workhouse nursing is long and versatile.
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