England's first state hospitals and the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1867-1930 / by Gwendoline M. Ayers.

  • Ayers, Gwendoline M.
Date:
1971
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Credit: England's first state hospitals and the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1867-1930 / by Gwendoline M. Ayers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pathological services, and research under the aegis of the Board; and its extra- medical work on behalf of juvenile offenders, vagrants, and war-time re- fugees. Amply supported by statistical records and a comprehensive bibliography, the work should be of interest not only to social workers, hospital staffs, and public health administrators, but also to medical historians, epidemiologists, and architects of national health policies. GWENDOLINE M. AYERS, B.Sc. (Econ.), Ph.D., studied sociology at the London School of Economics, where she has held several administrative posts. Dr. Ayers was Secretary of the British Sociological Association from 1951 to 1962. Printed in Great Britain