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A PLAGUE ON YOU, SIR

Written by George Patrick
Published by George Patrick in 1981
ISBN: 0950786802

£ 42.00 Photo of A PLAGUE ON YOU, SIR- Stock Number: 1708851

A PLAGUE ON YOU, SIR
Written by George Patrick.
Stock no. 1708851
1st. 1981. Hardback. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Community's Road to Health. How did the people of Kingston upon Hull tackle disease. 335 pages. ISBN: 0950786802. Wrapper unevenly faded. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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Cover of A PLAGUE ON YOU, SIR by George Patrick

Contents

  • Chapter 1 1298-1470 - Founding of the town; first houses; highways
  • Chapter 2 1470-1750 - Houses; outbreaks of plague; first hospitals
  • Chapter 3 1750-1800 - Industrial Revolution; gin drinking; repair and cleansing of streets
  • Chapter 4 1800-1835 - Hull and Sculcoates Dispensary; Sculcoates Refuge of the Insane; Hull Borough Lunatic Asylum
  • Chapter 5 1835-1850 - Beverley Road Institution; Stoneferry waterworks; public baths and laundry
  • Chapter 6 1850-1870 - Local Board of Health; drainage problems; street improvements
  • Chapter 7 1870-1885 (i) - Victoria Hospital for Sick Children; fever wards at Hull General Infirmary
  • Chapter 8 1870-1885 (ii) - First Medical Officer of Health; zymotic disease
  • Chapter 9 1870-1885 (iii) - Scarlatina; extension of Garrison Hospital
  • Chapter 10 1885-1898 - Foreign and infectious disease; Hull and Goole Port Sanitary Authority
  • Chapter 11 1899-1900 - smallpox - history, vaccination, major outbreak
  • Chapter 12 1900-1920 (i) - Hull Crematorium; plague; National Insurance; Radium Fund
  • Chapter 13 1900-1920 (ii) - Midwives Act; infant mortality; feeding of infants
  • Chapter 14 1900-1920 (iii) - Tuberculosis; notifications; dispensaries; hospital treatment
  • Chapter 15 1900-1920 (iv) - Housing conditions; development of suburbs; cellar dwellings
  • Chapter 16 1920-1938 (i) - Sanitary inspection - factories and shops, lodging houses, canal boats
  • Chapter 17 1920-1938 (ii) - Development of housing estates; insanitary areas; effects of housing shortage
  • Chapter 18 1920-1938 (iii) - Midwifery services; ante-natal clinic; appointment of municipal midwife
  • Chapter 19 1920-1938 (iv) - Child health services; health visitors; schools for mothers and infant welfare clinics
  • Chapter 20 1920-1938 (v) - Influenza outbreaks; Hull Blind Institute; Tilworth Grange Hospital
  • Chapter 21 1939-1948 - Preparations for war; evacuation schemes; use of hospitals
  • Chapter 22 1948-1974 (i) - New drainage system; development of housing estates
  • Chapter 23 1948-1974 (ii) - Clean air; smoke control areas; special problems in industry
  • Chapter 24 1948-1974 (iii) - The Welfare State; Leeds Regional Hospital Board
  • Chapter 25 1948-1974 (iv) - General Practitioner obstetricians; clinics; midwives
  • Chapter 26 1948-1974 (v) - Smallpox vaccination; diphtheria immunisation; tetanus immunisation
  • Chapter 27 1948-1974 (vi) - Cancer; mental health services; Scriver testing
  • Chapter 28 1948-1974 (vii) - Ambulance services; developments at De la Pole Hospital; closing of Victoria Children's Hospital
  • Appendix - Vital Statistics