The origins of the National Health Service : the medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871 / by Ruth G. Hodgkinson.

  • Hodgkinson, Ruth G.
Date:
1967
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Credit: The origins of the National Health Service : the medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871 / by Ruth G. Hodgkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    leader late 'sixties; Association of Metropolitan Workhouse Medical Officers formed 1866; Workhouse Infirmary Association; Rogers' influence on Poor Law Board; Metropolitan Poor Act; Rogers' dismissal from Strand; meetings; Lancet and private doctors' support for Metropolitan Workhouse Medical Officers' Association; Rogers advocate of reform of Poor Law Board; Rogers forms Poor Law Medical Officers' Association. Ireland—dispensaries, super annuation; Association assured of future success and permanency, Parliamen tary support, demands and future programme; Rogers and Local Government Act; assessment of his work; value of aid of medical press; importance of Poor Law Medical Officers for future developments of country's medical system. Chapter 14. The Workhouse Infirmary 451 Survey 1834-71 ; change in policy as to who should be given institutional relief, and in attitude to treatment of sick who now entered workhouses ; complacency of Guardians shaken by doctors; demand for reforms by various unions; some Guardians made improvements of own accord; intervention of Poor Law Board—St. Paneras inquiry, 1856; inactivity because of deficient inspection; Visiting Committees; Medical Officers' Reports; Regional Inspectorate; Ernest Hart's long analysis of latter and change necessary; need for accurate returns; Parliamentary returns in 'sixties; workhouses had become large hospitals; statistics in London; high mortality rate in workhouses; public out burst ; Wakley ; Lancet Inquiry, 1865; proposed scheme of reform by Lancet and Association for improving Workhouse Infirmaries; women's movement and Workhouse Visiting Society; Louisa Twining; Workhouse Infirmary Associa tion; Lancet's second inquiry—improvement noticed; work of Joseph Rogers in Strand; official inquiries, 1866, through nurses; Poor Law Board deputed Farnall and Smith to investigate into Metropolitan infirmaries ; Smith's long report and suggested reforms ; Cubic Space Committee and further reports by two Inspectors; Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867; press comments; J. S. Mill; efficiency of Act; great improvements and activity in construction; activity of Sick Asylums Districts; Poor Law Board alarmed at expenditure; unification of Metropolitan Unions and dissolution of four Sick Asylums Districts; activity of amalgamated Unions, 1869, and of two remaining Sick Asylums Districts; Poor Law Board induced independent Unions also to undertake improvements for accommodation of sick, 1869-71; additional buildings erected everywhere; Poor Law Board attentively watched progress; regulations; Metropolitan Asylums Board; lunatic asylums, ambulances, isolation hospitals; epidemics, 1869-71; results of Metropolitan Poor Act; resuscitation of Workhouse Infirmary Association, 1871; Rogers; Provinces: Workhouse infirmaries; Lancet inquiries and Poor Law Board's investigations. Reports of Inspectors on provincial institutions: Smith's long report on forty-eight infirmaries, 1867; Poor Law Board and report; Ernest Hart's plan for reform, 1867 (similar to Metropolitan scheme) ; Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867; Poor Law Board and reform; regulations, progress; fever and smallpox epidemics in provinces; con ference of Guardians of northern industrial towns regarding grants in aid demanded; deputation to Poor Law Board. Widespread activity in Unions, 1870; abuses continued, agitation for further reform; superiority of gaols xil