List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pauperism and Sickness
From Acute Illness to Chronic Disability
Segregating Fever Patients
Controlling Disorderly Behavior
Day-to-day Doctoring
Medical Therapies
Poor Law Nursing
"Every Care and Kindness": The Standard of Workhouse Medicine
Appendix A: Prevalence of Selected Infectious Diseases in Birmingham Workhouse on the Last Day of the First Week of Each Quarter for the Years 1877-80 and 1894-1911
Appendix B: Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected Weeks, 1851-56
Appendix C: List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham Infirmary in 1896
Appendix D: Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization Rates for Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and Wales, 1840-1911
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