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.d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP re tse h co R fo ytisre vin U .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:27. Sickness in the Workhouse .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP re tse h co R fo ytisre vin U .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20. 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Sickness in the Workhouse Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834–1914 .d e vre se r sth Alistair Ritch g ir llA .sse rP re tse h co R fo ytisre vin U .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20. Copyright © 2019 by Alistair Ritch All rights reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2019 University of Rochester Press 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.urpress.com and Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-975-3 ISSN: 1526-2715 Cataloging-in-Publication data available from the Library of Congress .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP retse This publication is printed on acid-free paper. h co R fo Printed in the United States of America. ytisre vin U .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20. For Christina, Mark, David, Gavin, Olivia, Mia, and Noah .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP re tse h co R fo ytisre vin U .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20. .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP re tse h co R fo ytisre vin U .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20. Contents List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Pauperism and Sickness 1 1 From Acute Illness to Chronic Disability 29 2 Segregating Fever Patients 66 3 Controlling Disorderly Behavior 94 4 Day-to-day Doctoring 126 5 Medical Therapies 154 6 Poor Law Nursing 187 7 “Every Care and Kindness”: The Standard of Workhouse Medicine 220 Appendix A: Prevalence of Selected Infectious Diseases in Birmingham Workhouse on the Last Day of the First Week of Each Quarter for the Years 1877–80 and 1894–1911 227 Appendix B: Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected .d e vre Weeks, 1851–56 230 se r sth Appendix C: List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham g ir llA Infirmary in 1896 231 .sse rP Appendix D: Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization Rates for re tse Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and h co Wales, 1840–1911 232 R fo ytisre Notes 235 vin U .9 Bibliography 277 1 0 2 © Index 293 th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20. .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP re tse h co R fo ytisre vin U .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20. Tables Table 1.1 Admissions, discharges, and deaths in Birmingham workhouse infirmary for selected periods, 1835‒44 37 Table 1.2 Medical relief in Birmingham workhouse for selected weeks, 1851‒56 39 Table 1.3 New cases of disease treated in medical institutions in Birmingham in 1876 39 Table 1.4 Inmates and patients in Wolverhampton workhouse, on one day in selected months, 1842‒45 41 Table 1.5 Sick and total number of inmates in Wolverhampton workhouse for the years 1841‒46, 1857‒66, 1870‒72, and number of deaths in years 1857‒66 42 Table 1.6 Admissions of sick inmates and deaths in Birmingham workhouse for the months of January to April inclusive, 1850‒54 42 Table 1.7 Sick and total inmates in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and all England and Wales workhouses, 1867‒96 44 Table 1.8 Sick and healthy inmates in Birmingham and Wolverhampton workhouses on one day, 1899‒1900 46 Table 1.9 Birmingham workhouse population by age group, 1851‒1911 48 .d e vre Table 1.10 Wolverhampton workhouse population by age group, ser sth 1841‒1911 49 gir llA .sserP TTaabbllee 11..1112 NB Niuurmmmibbneegrrh ooaffm p“ cawatsioeurnaktlhtsy oi nuca steshe, es1” b8 ae6dd5mr‒id1itd9te1edn1 two aBrdirsm inin gham 51 retse infirmary, 1904‒10 57 h co Table 1.13 Operations performed in Birmingham infirmary, R fo 1859‒92 61 ytisre Table 2.1 Inmates in fever wards in Birmingham workhouse on one vinU day in various months in 1847 70 .9 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Ritch, Alistair. Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914, University of Rochester Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=5986695. Created from utoronto on 2022-04-09 12:38:20.
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