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

    • Rutter, Michael, 1953-
    Date
    [1976]
    • Books
  • 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.

    • Millar, Richard.
    Date
    1818
    • Books
    • Online
  • 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).

    • Limner, Luke, 1822-1912.
    Date
    [1847]
    Reference
    35846i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

    • Fitzpatrick, Kevin M.
    Date
    2000
    • Books
  • An ignorant young doctor telling poverty-stricken people to feed and look after their children properly. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

    • Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.
    Reference
    15684i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Nutrition and low income families / National Dairy Council.

    • National Dairy Council (Great Britain)
    Date
    1993
    • Books
  • The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

    • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
    Date
    1 December 1809
    Reference
    40145i
    • Pictures
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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 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.

    • Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)
    Date
    1887
    • Books
    • Online
  • 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.

    • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
    Date
    [1880]
    • Books
    • Online
  • Global Forum update on research for health : poverty, equity and health research. Volume 2 / Global Forum for Health Research ; edited by Stephen Matlin.

    • Matlin, Stephen.
    Date
    2005
    • Books
  • Social pathology / by Samuel George Smith.

    • Smith, Samuel George, 1852-1915.
    Date
    1911
    • Books
    • Online
  • The relief of poverty, 1834-1914 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Michael E. Rose.

    • Rose, Michael Edward.
    Date
    1972
    • Books
  • Health and poverty : global health problems and solutions / Gijs Walraven.

    • Walraven, Gijsbertus Engelinus Laurentius, 1957-
    Date
    2010
    • Books
  • The Morning Chronicle survey of labour and the poor : the metropolitan districts / Henry Mayhew.

    • Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887.
    Date
    1980-1982
    • Books
  • A poor family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.

    • Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
    Date
    1 August 1794
    Reference
    17757i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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.

    • Pierre, Jean-Baptiste Marie, 1714-1789.
    Reference
    17435i
    • Pictures
  • Death, as a policeman, approaches a ragged woman and her baby in a London park. Coloured etching by M. Morgan, 1867.

    • Morgan, Matthew, 1839-1890.
    Date
    November 2, 1867
    Reference
    36787i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Mothers alone : poverty and the fatherless family / Dennis Marsden.

    • Marsden, Dennis.
    Date
    1973
    • Books
  • An end to poverty / by Fritz Wittels, translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul.

    • Wittels, Fritz, 1880-1950.
    Date
    1925
    • Books
  • Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris: as seen from the river. Line engraving by Perelle.

    • Perelle, Adam, 1638-1695.
    Reference
    21737i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

    • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
    Date
    1847
    Reference
    25970i
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    The bottle
    • Pictures
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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.

    • Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)
    Date
    1877
    • Books
    • Online
  • Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth ; contributors Charles Booth, Beatrice Potter [and others].

    • Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943.
    Date
    1889-1891
    • Books
    • Online
  • Hints respecting the distresses of the poor / By Dr. Lettsom.

    • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
    Date
    1796
    • Books
    • Online
  • Slums of India / Neela Ganguly.

    • Ganguly, Neela
    Date
    [2015]
    • Books
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