Poor-Law Medical Relief in Liver-Pool

Medical Examination and Poor Relief in Early Modern Germany

This article investigates the role of the medical examination in municipal poor relief programmes between 1570 and 1620. Documents from the city of Nördlingen, a community of approximately 10,000 people in 1600, suggest that municipal facilities addressed a range of serious illnesses for a wide spectrum of the population. Practitioners were influenced by their Galenic medical milieu but ultimat...

Poor Relief in Sixteenth

Agricultural trade unionism and the crusade against outdoor relief: poor law politics in the Brix orth

This article examines the impact of the crusade against outdoor relief in the Brixworth Union (Nol'thamptonshire), which was one of the most fervent supporters of central government's poor law retreilchment campaign in the late-Victorian era. The paper examines the relationship between the origins of the crusade against out-relief and the advent of agricultural trade unionism. It argues that gu...

Monastic poor relief in sixteenth-century England.

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Rural Medical Relief