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D Ernsting (1913-2007): papers on Poor Law/Public Assistance Institutions

The Public Assistance Order 1930: The Poor Law Code

Notes by Mr D Ernsting on Woodbine House Public Assistance Institution and Emergency Medical Services Hospital

Report to the Institution House Sub-Committee: Optical Needs of Patients (County Borough of Bolton, Fishpool Institution) 1946 with copies of associated correspondence with John Lewis, MP and John Edwards, Ministry of Health

`Ladies' Hairdressing', from Quarterly Bulletin of Hospital and Welfare Administrators Spring 1947

Talk `Bumbledom up-to-date' (i.e. the work of the former Poor Law Institutions)

`Hospitals for the Elderly', talk given at a Conference held at St Thomas Hospital Haverfordwest in 1966, for the members of voluntary organisations, Friends of the Hospital, WVS, St John and BRCS; based mainly upon developments at the Fishpool Institution/Townleys Branch Hospital, Bolton, Lancs between 1945 and the early days of the NHS

Public Assistance Institutions: The Control of Food (retrospective note, with copy of dietary prescribed by Surrey County Council, 1935)

Obituary of Don Ernsting by Laurence Dopson, from <i>The Independent</i>

`Work' in the Workhouse (retrospective note)

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`Work' in the Workhouse (retrospective note)

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