Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1 From Acute Illness to Chronic Disability 29
6. 2 Segregating Fever Patients 66
7. 3 Controlling Disorderly Behavior 94
8. 4 Day-to-day Doctoring 126
9. 5 Medical Therapies 154
10. 6 Poor Law Nursing 187
11. 7 “Every Care and Kindness”: The Standard of Workhouse Medicine 220
12. 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 227
13. Appendix B: Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected Weeks, 1851–56 230
14. Appendix C: List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham Infirmary in 1896 231
15. Appendix D: Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization Rates for Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and Wales, 1840–1911 232
16. Notes 235
17. Bibliography 277
18. Index 293