Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- Article
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Order of Service - Centenary Service
Date: 15 October 1997Reference: DGH1/3/5/11Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
"Burns and Scalds in the Home", L Colebrook, Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service, Oct 1946
Date: 1946Reference: PP/COL/C.2/23Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Books
- Online
Report on trichinae and trichinosis / United States Marine Hospital Service ; prepared, under direction of the supervising Surgeon-General, by W.C.W. Glazier.
United States. Marine Hospital Service.Date: 1881- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Post-coital methods
Date: 1972 - 2005Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/2/51Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
The Directory of Hospital & Health Service Addresses
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1995Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars