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Hospitals

GENERAL
F OPPERT : Hospitals, Infirmaries & Dispensaries - Their Construction, Interior
Arrangement & Management
(1867 J Churchill)
H C BURDETT : The Cottage Hospital - Its Origin, Progress, Managment & Work
(1877 Scientific Press)
H C BURDETT : Hospitals and Asylums of the World
(1891-3 J Churchill) - 4 vols
R M CLAY : The Medieval Hospitals of England
(1909 Methuen)
S HEATH : Old English Houses of Alms
(1910 Francis Griffiths)
F PARSONS : Isolation Hospitals
(1928 CUP)
A D EVANS & L G R HOWARD : The Romance of the British Voluntary Hospital Movement
(1930 Hutchinson)
S BINGHAM : Ministering Angels
(1979 Osprey)
C BERRIGE : The Almshouses of London
(1987 Ashford Press)
(Ed) P LOMAX : Directory of Hospitals (1987 Longman pb)
C O'NEILL : A Picture of Health - Hospitals & Nursing on Old Picture Postcards
(1989 S B Publications pb)
M EMRYS-ROBERTS : The Cottage Hospitals 1859-1990
(1991 Dorset Publications pb £8.95)
(Ed) H RICHARDSON : English Hospitals 1660-1948 - A Survey of Their Architecture & Design
(1998 RCHME £35)

LONDON
Barts
N MOORE : The History of St Bartholomew's Hospital
(1918 Arthur Pearson) - 2 vols
D'Arcy POWER & H J WARING : A Short History of St Bartholomew's Hospital 1123-1923
(1923 Ptd for the Hospital)
GE YEO : Images of Bart's - An Illustrated History
(1992 Hist Public/St Barts)

Guy's
Dr Samuel WILKS & G T BETTANY : A Biographical History of Guy's Hospital
(1892 Ward Lock)
(Ed) H A RIPMAN : Guy's Hospital 1725-1948 (1951 Guy's Hospital)
H C CAMERON : Mr Guy's Hospital 1726-1948
(1954 Longmans Green)

The London
E W MORRIS : A History of the London Hospital
(1910 Edward Arnold)
F TREVES : The Elephant Man & Other Reminiscences
(1923 Cassell)
A E CLARKE-KENNEDY : The London - A Study in the Voluntary Hospital System
(1962-3 Pitman) - 2 vols
M HOWELL & P FORD : The True History of the Elephant Man
(1980 Allison & Busby)
(Ed) C DAUNTON : The London Hospital Illustrated - 250 Years (1990 Batsford/London Hospital)

Middlesex
H S G SAUNDERS : The Middlesex Hospital 1745-1948
(1949 Max Parrish)
A J D GRAY : The Central Middlesex Hospital - the First 60 Years 1903-63
(1963 Pitman)

St George's
G C PEACHEY : The History of St George's Hospital
(1910-14 John Bale) - 3 vols
J BLOMFIELD : St George's 1733-1933
(1933 Medici Society/St George's Hospital)

St Thomas's
F G PARSONS : A History of St Thomas's Hospital
(1932 Methuen) - 3 vols
C GRAY : The Story of St Thomas's 1106-1947
(1947 Faber/St Thomas's Hospital)

OTHER LONDON HOSPITALS
W HUNTER : Historical Account of Charing Cross Hospital and Medical School
(1914 Murray)
Lady BUTTERWORTH : The Story of City Hospital 1848-1925
(1925 City of London Hospital)
N FLOWER : A Book by Newman Flower - What Shall the Title Be ?
(1925 Cassell/Westminster Children's Hospital)
E T COLLINS : The History & Traditions of the Moorfields Eye Hospital
(1929 H K Lewis)
E MORLAND : ALICE AND THE STORK OR THE RISE IN THE STATUS OF THE MIDWIFE AS EXEMPLIFIED
IN THE LIFE OF ALICE GREGORY 1867-1944
(1951 HODDER & STOUGHTON)
J LANGDON-DAVIES : Westminster Hospital
(1952 John Murray)
Z COPE : A 100 Years of Nursing at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington
(1955 Heinemann)
C MORRISON : St Peter's Hospital for Stone 1860-1960
(1960 Livingstone)
(Ed) B RUSSELL : St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin (1963 Livingstone)
J MANTON : Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(1965 Methuen)
S J WODALL : The Manor House Hospital - A Personal Record
(1966 Routledge Kegan Paul)
P RHODES : Dr John Leake's Hospital - A History of the General Lying-in Hospital,
York Rd, Lambeth 1765-1971
(1977 Davis Poynter)
F CLEMINSON : Beyond Recall - The Making of Mile End Hospital
(1983 Tower Hamlets Arts Project pb)
J KOSKY : Mutual Friends - Charles Dickens & Gt Ormond Street Children's Hospital
(1989 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
E McKELLER : The German Hospital, Hackney
(1991 Hackney Society pb)

AVON
G MUNRO SMITH : : A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary
(1917 John wright)

DURHAM
W ROBINSON : Centenary History of Durham County Hospital & Sunderland Eye Infirmary 1836-1936
(1936 The Infirmary, Durham)

EDINBURGH
M GOLDMAN : Lister Ward
(1987 Adam Hilger)

ESSEX
J B PENFOLD : The History of the Essex County Hospital, Colchester
(1984 PP)
M JEFFERIES & J A LEE : The Hospitals of Southend
(1986 Phillimore)

HERTFORDSHIRE

M SHEPHERD : Heart of Harefield - The Story of the Hospital
(1990 Quiller Press)

KENT
S J CORNFOOT : A History of Faversham Cottage Hospital
(1985 PP)
F M HALL, R S STEVENS & J WYMAN : The Kent & Canterbury Hospital 1790-1987
(1987 Kent Post-Graduate Medical Centre)
J BURNE : Dartford's Capital River - Paddle Steamers, Personalities & Smallpox Boats
(1989 Barracuda Books)
F G STRANGE : The History of the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital 1791-1991
(1991 Meresborough Books)

LANCASHIRE
W BROCKBANK : Portrait of a Hospital 1752-1948, to Commemorate the Bi-Centenary
of the Royal Infirmary, Manchester
(1952 Heinemann)

LEEDS
P BEDFORD & D HOWARD : St James University Hospital Leeds - A Pictorial History
(1985 Hospital trustees pb)

NEWCASTLE
G DALE, J DONALD & J WAGGET : The Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children 1887-1987
(1988 PP pb)

NOTTINGHAM
F H JACOB : A History opf the General Hospital Near Nottingham
(1951 John wright)

SHROPSHIRE
ANON : The Heritage of Oswestry - The Origin & Development of the Robert Jones
& Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry 1900-1961
(1962 Ptd for the Hospital)
A HUNT : Reminiscences
(1935 Ptd for the Derwen Cripples' Training College)

SURREY
J R BIGNALL : Frinley - The Biography of a Sanitorium
(1979 Brompton Hospital)

SUSSEX
S E LARGE : King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst
(1986 Phillimore)

TYNE & WEAR
W ROBINSON : The Story of the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland
(1914 Hills)

MENTAL & PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
Rev E O'DONOGHUE : Bethlem Hospital from Its Foundation in 1942
(?) (1914 John Lane)
(1926 John Lane) - 2 vols
(Ed) M C CRAIG : The Legacy of Swift - A Bi-Centenary Record of St Patrick's
Hospital, Dublin
(1948 Ptd for the Governors)
J E ALLEN : Inside Broadmoor
(1952 W H Allen)
A L ASHWORTH : Stanley Road Hospital, Wakefield
(1975 Wakefield Health Authority)
R MALSTER : St Lawrence's Story of a Hospital 1870-1994
((1994 Caterham Lifecare NHS Trust)
S H BLACK : An 18thC Mad Doctor - William Perfect of West Malling
(1995 Darenth Valley Publications £3.95)

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Britain In Pictures Series
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Mrs Samuel Carter Hall
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