Stories
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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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.
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Children in burns prevention campaigns
Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.
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Lying low for lockdown and beyond
For Liz Carr the chances of catching Covid-19 are the same as for anyone else, but as a Disabled person she's at much greater risk of not getting the treatment she needs if she falls ill.
Catalogue
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The romance of the British voluntary hospital movement / by A. Delbert Evans and L.G. Redmond Howard, with an introduction by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane ; with 128 illustrations.
Evans, A. Delbert (Alva Delbert)Date: [1930]- Pictures
St. John's Ambulance Association Hospital, Etaples, after an air raid during World War I men and women stand amid the debris, surrounded by destroyed hospital buildings. Photograph, ca. 1918.
Date: 1918Reference: 581871i- Pictures
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, London: Queen Mary visiting a children's ward. Photograph, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 665760i- Pictures
A building proposed to replace the old buildings of Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Reproduction of perspective and plan, 1993, after a drawing by A. Beresford Pite, 1904.
Pite, Arthur Beresford, 1861-1934.Date: 1993Reference: 12009i- Archives and manuscripts
Production / abolition of tremors through stimulation at Whittington Hospital.
Date: 1958Reference: GC/179/C/2/16Part of: Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club