Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898

by Keir Waddington

A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.

By the 1890s Victorians assumed that London's hospitals were facing an endemic financial crisis which was so severe that some feared the state might have to intervene to support an ailing voluntary system: charity both underpinnedLondon's hospitals and proved insufficient to meet the ever-increasing cost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933311
• ISBN13: 9780861933310
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"