Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
Eastern Dispensary for Relief of the Poor.Date: [1790?]- Ephemera
Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : sir, the last patient admitted by your recommendation, is since dead : I beg leave to inform you there is a vacancy / H.E. Bull, apothecary.
Bull, H. E.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Vol. XIV. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on Poor Law medical relief in certain unions in England and Wales. / By John C. McVail.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909-1913- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909