Medicine and the Workhouse by

Medicine and the Workhouse

Rochester Studies in Medical History

290 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history science informative reflective medium-paced
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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates were elderly and infir...

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