Iosif Patriciu and the School Inspection in Moldavia (Mid Nineteenth Century)

Mortality in mid nineteenth century Britain

RICHARD CAVENDISH, The powers of evil in western religion, magic and folk belief, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 299, £5.95. Evil supernatural agencies are part of every culture in degrees varying with their sophistication. As is to be expected, primitive man is surrounded by them, but they are of course still believed in by races who boast advanced social and cultural devel...

The providers of medical treatment in mid-nineteenth-century Bristol.

MEDICAL PRACTICE in Bristol during the nineteenth century has been discussed from several points of view. These are histories of the hospitals and of the practitioners closely connected with them, and brief descriptions of the local dispensaries,1 while a detailed account ofpauper medical relief in Bristol has been given by Hodgkinson who quotes figures for the numbers receiving this relief in ...

Defining the Medical Profession in Mid-Nineteenth Century Bristol

The movement for reform of medical practice which occupied the middle decades of the nineteenth century culminated in the Medical Registration Act of 1858. Its provisions were a disappointment to many reformers because, among other things, it did not allow automatic prosecution of unqualified practitioners. They could only be penalised if they assumed a medical title or passed themselves off as...

Local politics and public health in mid-nineteenth-century Plymouth.

INTRODUCTION IN the mid-nineteenth century, Plymouth ranked as one of Britain's most unhealthy towns.' Overcrowding was as bad as that encountered in all but the most pernicious blackspots of London, Liverpool, or Manchester.2 Between 1841 and 1850, the rate of mortality had averaged twenty-five per thousand, a figure as high as the worst of the nation's industrial cities3 (Table I). Rapid popu...

The Vienna Medical School in the nineteenth century