Stories
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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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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.
Date: 1910-1921- Journals
- Online
Annual report of the Local Government Board. Supplement containing the report of the Medical Officer.
Great Britain. Local Government Board.Date: 1876-1919
- Books
- Online
Fifteenth annual report of the Local Government Board, 1885-86. Supplement containing reports and papers on cholera submitted by the Board's Medical Officer.
Date: 1886- Books
Forty-second annual report of the Local Government Board, 1912-13. Supplement in continuation of the report of the Medical Officer of the Board for 1912-13, containing a second report on infant and child mortality / by the Medical Officer of the Board.
Date: 1913- Journals
Annual report of the Local Government Board.
Great Britain. Local Government Board.Date: 1872-1919