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Cycles of disadvantage : a review of research / Michael Rutter, Nicola Madge.

Date

[1976]

Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion in a letter, addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar.

Date

1818

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

Date

[1847]

Reference

35846i

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

Date

2000

An ignorant young doctor telling poverty-stricken people to feed and look after their children properly. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

Reference

15684i

Nutrition and low income families / National Dairy Council.

Date

1993

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

Date

1 December 1809

Reference

40145i

Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, etc. etc. ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1886 ; management, history, annual statement, accounts, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785 ; copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the Duke of Devonshire to the trustees ; and meteorological report for the year 1886.

Date

1887

The twenty-second annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1879, with appendices.

Date

[1880]

Global Forum update on research for health : poverty, equity and health research. Volume 2 / Global Forum for Health Research ; edited by Stephen Matlin.

Date

2005

Social pathology / by Samuel George Smith.

Date

1911

The relief of poverty, 1834-1914 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Michael E. Rose.

Date

1972

Health and poverty : global health problems and solutions / Gijs Walraven.

Date

2010

The Morning Chronicle survey of labour and the poor : the metropolitan districts / Henry Mayhew.

Date

1980-1982

A poor family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.

Date

1 August 1794

Reference

17757i

A poor woman in a dingy attic, surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III after J. Pierre.

Reference

17435i

Death, as a policeman, approaches a ragged woman and her baby in a London park. Coloured etching by M. Morgan, 1867.

Date

November 2, 1867

Reference

36787i

Mothers alone : poverty and the fatherless family / Dennis Marsden.

Date

1973

An end to poverty / by Fritz Wittels, translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul.

Date

1925

Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris: as seen from the river. Line engraving by Perelle.

Reference

21737i

A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Date

1847

Reference

25970i

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Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, etc. etc. ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1876 ; management, history, annual statement, accounts, meteorological report and tables, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785, and a copy of conveyance of hospital from the Duke of Devonshire to the trustees.

Date

1877

Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth ; contributors Charles Booth, Beatrice Potter [and others].

Date

1889-1891

Hints respecting the distresses of the poor / By Dr. Lettsom.

Date

1796

Slums of India / Neela Ganguly.

Date

[2015]