Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Article
Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Article
Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
Once upon a time, we all had a genius.
- Article
Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 1963-1964Reference: SA/CMO/C/75Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 1 May 1964Reference: SA/CMO/C/71Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 1 Feb 1963Reference: SA/CMO/C/60Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health
- Books
- Online
Inquiry into some points of the sanatory state of Edinburgh : the rate of mortality of its inhabitants since 1780; their average duration of life; the differences in the rate of mortality among its different classes, and among the married and single; and its comparative eligibility as a place of residence, and for the education of children / by James Stark.
Date: 1847
- Ephemera
- Online
Parents' drinking weakens children's vitality : comparison of children in 50 abstaining and 59 drinking families in one village in Finland ... drink menaces vigor and lives of children.
Date: [1909?]