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Edward Smith, correspondence and papers relating to the Eastern District (including Cambridge and Norfolk) and North Midland District : Correspondence; Report; Pamphlet; Newspaper Clipping. 1865-1875.

Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain Available online

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Other
Contributor:
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Wales.
England.
Merseyside (England).
Westmorland (England).
Carmarthenshire (Wales).
Monmouthshire (Wales).
Herefordshire (England).
Worcestershire (England).
Wiltshire (England).
Gloucestershire (England).
Lincolnshire (England).
Norfolk Island.
Liverpool (England).
Ashby-de-la-Zouch (England).
Goole (England).
Boston (Mass.).
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2020.
Summary:
"Includes reports by Dr Smith on provincial workhouses in England and Wales, and sufficiency of arrangements for the care and treatment of the sick in provincial workhouses, and of "lunatics" in workhouses. Papers include comparisons with military hospitals and reference to the opinion of Florence Nightingale on levels of mortality in hospitals."
Notes:
AMDigital Reference:MH 32/67
MH 32 Local Government Board and Predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence, 1834-1904;This series contains correspondence of the Poor Law Commission and Board with assistant poor law commissioners and poor law inspectors, and of the Local Government Board with its general, engineering, medical, school, boarding-out and other inspectors. The series also contains separate volumes of correspondence on special subjects with various inspectors, and also circulars of the Board, reports of inspectors on the conditions and classification of workhouses, a medical report on infant feeding and a report by Edwin Chadwick on outdoor relief, 1840.

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