Paupers and the infirmary in mid-eighteenth-century Shrewsbury.

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A Tomkins

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or injured paupers has often been noted. Yet in the mid-eighteenth century, provincial hospitals emerged as an option to complement the efforts of parish officers in some places. Mary Fissell's work on the Bristol Infirmary has established the similarity of circumstances which pushed people on to poor relief or into an infirmary, but it has not yet been determined whether there was a substantial overlap of people who used both options at the same time.1 Individuals may theoretically have been inor outpatients in an eighteenth-century infirmary while they or their families were also receiving a parish pension or other form of poor relief, but was this ever in fact the case? Attempts to answer such questions are problematic, owing to the scarcity of suitable charity records for the same years when relevant or useable parish records survive. Fortunately the Shropshire Infirmary, one of the first ten hospitals founded in England outside London, has left records for the mid-eighteenth century covering some of the same years for which we possess poor relief documents for Shrewsbury town parishes.2 Consequently, after a brief introduction to mid-eighteenth-century Shrewsbury, this article will examine four aspects of welfare provision in the town between 1740 and 1755. First, the accounts of the overseers' of the poor will be used to examine the way parish relief

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