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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
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ir profession. Of these, theMedical Society of London is one of the oldest, as it iscertainly one of the most flourishing. These societies havedone much for the advancement of medicine as a science, forthey have promoted free discussion, and have allowed a largenumber of carefully observed facts to be recorded in a formwhich is easily accessible to everyone. The wave of philanthropy continued to rise throughoutEngland in exact proportion to the increase in the materialprosperity of the country. It took the very practical form ofbuilding hospitals and infirmaries for the gratuitous treatmentof the sick. The London Hospital in Whitechapel began itsuseful existence in 1740 as a small infirmary in FeatherstoneStreet. It was then moved to Prescott Street, GoodmansFields, a neighbourhood inhabited then, as now, by a largeJewish population. Additional accommodation was soon re-quired, and buildings were erected upon its present site in1757. Every county town in England soon had its infirmary
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235 578 REVOLUTION AND BE ACTION. HospitalCliarities. PublicHealth. NavalHygiene. or local lios23ital. The York Hospital was founded in 17-tO,the Devon and Exeter a 3car later. The Xewcastle-on-TyneKo^al Intirniaiy was established in 1751; the Leeds GeneralIntirmaiT in 1767; the Radchfie Infirmary at Oxford in 1770;the Xorfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1771 ; and the Bir-mingham General Hospital in 177!>. None were endowed;each had to be supported by the voluntary contributions ofsubscribers, who thus showed their genuine pity for the sickpoor. It speaks Avell for the benevolence of Englishmen thatnone of these institutions, when once opened, have ever beenallowed to close their doors for want of funds, but that throughbad times and through good times money has always beenforthcoming for their support. Hygiene, or the science of public health and preventivemedicine, arose from small beo-inninos durinq: the latter halfot the eighteenth century. We owe its origin in part to SirJohn Pri

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