County of london

Artificial Pneumothorax: Experience of the London County Council

"For a healthy London": the Socialist Medical Association and the London County Council in the 1930s.

London's hospitals are never far from the news, recently for often depressing reasons. The inter-war period, however, saw expansion and development in the capital's municipal hospital service. Between 1921 and 1937 expenditure on centralized health services such as hospitals rose by a factor of nearly twenty, so that by the latter date London accounted, Lee suggests, "for almost a quarter of na...

Mental Observation Wards in London *The London County Council has no responsibility for the contents of this article.

By a custom established at some unknown date by the now defunct Boards of Guardians, Observation Wards occupy a more important place in the system for dealing with mental patients in London than they do in many parts of England. As most readers are aware, there are two main channels for entering mental hospitals as a certified mental patient. First, the Relieving Officer can arrange for a visit...

Vital statistics of the county of London in the years 1901 to 1951.

Archives of Neurology from the Pathological Laboratory of the London County Asylums, Claybury, Essex

Dr. Collins in his preface calls these archives the first fruits of the establishment of the County Asylums Laboratory at Claybury and the appointment of Dr. F. W. Mott as Superintendent of it. The London County Council are to be congratulated on the result of their enterprise in giving an opportunity for research into the pathology ol mental diseases, and most on having enlisted in this work t...