POOR-LAW MEDICAL SALARIES.

Medical charities, medical politics: the Irish dispensary system and the poor law, 1836–1872

This volume marks a welcome addition to published research on the establishment of a system of state medicine in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The author's objective is to explore the significance of the Medical Charities Act, 1851, and to analyse its effect on medical relief and epidemic control in Ireland up to the conversion of the Poor Law Commission to the Local Govemment Board in...

A 'Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy'? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland's parochial asylums.

Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...

Effect of a match on salaries for medical fellows.

To the Editor: In their Research Letter, Drs Niederle and Roth reported that fellowship markets without a match offered similar salaries as those that do. Although the authors acknowledged that “the market for fellowships is not the same as the market for residencies,” they nonetheless concluded that “eliminating the resident match would not necessarily increase residents’ wages.” Their underly...

Salaries + Compensation

The old poor law and medicine.

THIS ARTICLE is a survey of the treatment of the sick poor in the counties of Berkshire, Essex, and Oxfordshire from c. 1720 to 1834 based on parish records. Its general argument is that the sick poor received sympathetic and humane consideration bearing in mind contemporary medical knowledge and the limited facilities available. General medical aid is first considered broken limbs, midwifery, ...