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<font face="Calibri" color="#0000FF">of interest? - pass on as you
wish<br>
keep well :) <br>
Chris<br><br>
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Voluntary Hospitals Database now online</b> <br>
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<font face="Calibri">The Centre for History in Public Health at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine announces a new online
resource for researchers with interests in the history of British and
Irish voluntary hospitals between c.1890 and 1946. <br>
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<font face="Calibri">The Voluntary Hospitals Database is at
<a href="http://www.hospitalsdatabase.lshtm.ac.uk/">
http://www.hospitalsdatabase.lshtm.ac.uk/</a> and contains statistical
data on over 1,300 hospitals located in England, Wales, Scotland and
Ireland. Originally recorded in a series of annual yearbooks, these
data were digitised by John Mohan, Martin Powell and Martin Gorsky in
1996-9. Thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust we
have now been able to make this material available online, and users may
search for hospitals of interest by name, by place or through an
interactive map. Simple graphing facilities are available to aid
visualisation of main trends, and users may freely download to Excel data
relating to individual hospitals, either separately or at the level of
city or county. Where possible each hospital is linked to the
relevant entry in the National Archives/Wellcome Trust Hospitals
Database, so that readers also have instant access to details of the
archives where further records of their chosen hospital are
located. <br>
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<font face="Calibri">Our original project explored the spatial and
temporal patterns of hospital provision and finance immediately prior to
the establishment of the British National Health Service, and links to
the articles we wrote about this are included in the website. We
hope this material will be of use to medical historians, to urban and
local historians, and to all with an interest in the historical
development of social welfare!<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Martin Gorsky<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Dr Martin Gorsky<br>
Faculty Research Degrees Director<br>
Faculty of Public Health and Policy<br>
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine<br>
15-17 Tavistock Place<br>
London WC1H 9SH<br>
Tel: 0207 927 2136<br>
Fax: 0207 637 3238<br>
<a href="http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history">
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history</a><br>
Centre for History in Public Health<br>
<a href="http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history/">
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history/</a> <br>
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