Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914

by Alistair Ritch

England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I.

By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469752
• ISBN13: 9781580469753
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"