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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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Fees, funding and the NHS

In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.

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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.

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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.

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  • Cancer in England and Wales 1919-1923.
  • Totla Deaths in England and Wales in ten years
  • Smallpox mortality in London, England and Wales 1861-1900
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • Map of England and Wales and surrounding seas. Engraving by J. Russell, 1803.
  • Association of County Medical Officers of Health of England and Wales: members of the association, 1952. Photograph, 1952.
  • Urgent request to supporters of UFAW : cruel poisons ... the Deer (England and Wales ) bill ... / UFAW.
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons / [John Howard].
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals / [John Howard].
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