Doctors, Disease and Death. The Story of Public Health in Hay on Wye

by Peter Ford

This is the story of the state of the health of inhabitants of Hay on Wye, a small rural town in the Welsh Marche. Life was hard but did it really need the 50 or so doctors who worked there over the last 200 years. Was it a hotbed of disease, a famous centre for healing, or just full of hypochondriacs? Charles Dickens would have us believe that life expectancy was short in Victorian times, with the spectre of disease, ill-health, infirmity and death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08XZFFBJ5
• ISBN13: 9798586195418
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"