The Cottage Idea

The Magic Cottage:

This paper presents an exploratory study that investigates the impact of using a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) on enhancing creativity in imaginative writing at primary school level. The intervention was to present the pupils with an interactive 3D environment, using Virtual Reality (VR) technology, that provided the setting in which their stories could take place. Numerous interactive feat...

The First Cottage Hospital

The evolution of the cottage hospital.

IN THIS essay I have endeavoured to outline the trends in medical practice which led to the formation of the cottage hospital. The cottage hospital was something special, quite different from the other types of hospital. To understand these differences it has been necessary to mention the way other kinds of hospitals developed. The influence of these new hospitals on general practice in the nin...

Unoccupied Beds in Cottage Hospitals

Cottage Hospitals?that the Cottage Hospital idea may have been rather overdone because of the steady falling off in the number of occupied beds, and that in England and Wales, excluding London, they had 1,839 beds vacant throughout the whole of last year. No one appreciates more than myself the value of Sir Napier Burnett's report, but I regret that he has lent the weight of his great authority...

Cottage and Small Scale Industries A Reclassification

M C S THE definit ion of the different sectors of the indus t r ia l structure of an economy has to be baaed on a p ragmat ic appraisal of the preva i l ing conditions, w i t h due al lowance for adjustments and var ia t ions . if it is to be economical ly meaningful . Such an approach is needed a l l the more in the context of a g r o w i n g economy, fast developing as a result of conscious a...