1777 HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
The state of the prisons in England and Wales.
Howard devoted much of his life to the improvement of the conditions then prevailing in prisons. The publication of his book led to legislation abolishing abuses in prisons and providing for their proper cleaning. The…
GMN 1598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1716
1842 CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
Report…from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain.
Chadwick devoted his life to social reform. He was secretary to the Poor Law Commission when he made the above report to Parliament. In it he included a careful analysis of causes of death in 1838 and 1839 and gave a …
GMN 1608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1890
1875 HAVILAND, Alfred Joseph (1824 – 1903)
The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales. Illustrated by six small and three large coloured maps.
Haviland used the national mortality statistics for England and Wales to develop an elaborate geographical explanation based on map analysis for the cause of heart, cancer, and tuberculosis deaths. He found that femal…
GMN 10451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12644
1960 ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)
A history of the nursing profession.
Covers England and Wales only.
GMN 6639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7739
1964 ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)
The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.
The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.
GMN 10178 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12367
1975 CULE, John (1920 – 2015)
Wales and medicine. An historical survey from papers given at the Ninth British Congress on the History of Medicine, edited by J. Cule
GMN 6550.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8212
1980 CULE, John (1920 – 2015)
Wales and medicine. A source-list for printed books showing the history of medicine in relation to Wales and Welshmen.
GMN 6551.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8219
2008 BRUNTON, Deborah
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
GMN 9878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12066
