Medicine and poverty : a study of the Poor Law medical services of the Leicester Union, 1867-1914

This thesis presents a micro-study of the poor law medical services provided by a large provincial union in a rapidly growing industrial town during the central phase of poor law administration. The poor law medical service has been perceived as a second-class service that stigmatised and exploited...

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Main Author: Negrine, Angela
Other Authors: Snell, K.D.M. ; Horrocks, Sally
Published: University of Leicester 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492813