Stories
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
Catalogue
- Books
Hospital laundry arrangements / report of the Committee.
Central Health Services Council (Great Britain). Committee on Hospital Laundry Arrangements.Date: 1959
- Ephemera
- Online
The hospitals have first claim on the output of the laundries : this and other priority work for the services is keeping us busy, but, we hope in a very short time to be able to give you a much better delivery service ... / The Retford Laundry.
Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]- Books
Hospital laundry and related services : a second study / by W.A.J. Farndale.
Farndale, W. A. J. (William Arthur James)Date: 1967- Books
Organisation and management of laundry services for hospitals and local authorities : a third study / by W.A.J. Farndale.
Farndale, W. A. J. (William Arthur James)Date: 1968- Books
Hospital laundry services : a report submitted to the Secretary, south West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, London, W.2. 1966 / by W.A.J. Farndale ; assisted by D.R. Kettlewell.
Farndale, W. A. J. (William Arthur James)Date: 1966