THE SCOTTISH POOR-LAW MEDICAL SERVICE.

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...

The Scottish Medical Service Committee papers.

The Scottish poor law. Its operation in the north-east from 1745 to 1845

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...

The Board of Supervision and the Scottish parochial medical service, 1845-95.

INTRODUCTION The parochial medical service as operated by the poor law authorities in both England and Scotland during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has sometimes been regarded as the forerunner of the modern British national health service. Indeed, Ruth Hodgkinson in her book The origins of the National Health Service' deals with a formative period of the English poor law medica...