Medicine and the Workhouse

by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard David Schwarz

This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates wereelderly and infirm, needing not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464483
• ISBN13: 9781580464482
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"