Disease in the merchant navy : a history of the Seamen's Hospital Society / Gordon C. Cook.

Oxford : Radcliffe, [2007], ©2007.

vi, 630 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans, photographs ; 26 cm

Beginnings -- Social Conditions and disease prevention in early nineteenth century Britain -- Britain's major maritime organizations, shipyards, and London's docks -- Conditions of service in Britain's maritime organizations -- Diseases afflicting sailors before 1821 -- The SHS's precursor early meetings aimed at London's homeless Most of the Destitute seem to be Sailors -- This laudable Institution the permanent society is launched in 1821 -- The days of the Hospital-ships 1821-70 -- John Lydekker 1778-1832 a benefaction leading to the Act of Incorporation andother fund-raising initiatives -- The Hospital-ships -- Service on the Hospital-ships -- Fund-raisingin the days of the ships -- Diseases on the Hospital-ships -- Administrators, physicians and surgeons who served during the ship era -- The SHS in full swing 1870-1914 -- Transfer of facilities to the Infirmary of the Royal Hospital Greenwich in 1870 -- Expansion of facilities at the Dreadnought and further afield -- The Society's expanding staff 1870-1914 -- Diseases encountered by the Society 1870-1914 -- Nursing and nurse-training at the Dreadnought and ADH establishment of a school on Nightingale lines -- Genesis of the first school for tropical diseases at the ADH -- The London School of Clinical Medicine 1906-14 and structural changes to the Dreadnought Hospital -- Two World Wars, introduction of the National Health Service and insidious decline of the Society 1914-2006 -- The Great War 1914-18 the inter-war years and several new facilities -- Staffing during the Great War and inter-war years -- The Second World War 1939-45 introduction of the National Health Service 1948 and decline in the Society's activities -- Diseases at the Society's Hospitals in the latter years of the twentieth century -- TheSociety's staff in recent times -- The Society and its tropical medicine component in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The Board of Management Minute Books and their dates -- Appeal notice issued after the Public Meeting on 8 March 1821 -- Instructions to personnel on the last of the Hospital-ships -- Log of the Dreadnought 1865-68.

Includes bibliographical references and index.