Fwd: [Histmed] Voluntary Hospitals Database

[Chris]

of interest? - pass on as you wish
keep well :)
Chris

>Voluntary Hospitals Database now online
>
>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.
>
>The Voluntary Hospitals Database is at 
><http://www.hospitalsdatabase.lshtm.ac.uk/>http://www.hospitalsdatabase.lshtm.ac.uk/ 
>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.
>
>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!
>
>Martin Gorsky
>
>Dr Martin Gorsky
>Faculty Research Degrees Director
>Faculty of Public Health and Policy
>London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
>15-17 Tavistock Place
>London WC1H 9SH
>Tel: 0207 927 2136
>Fax: 0207 637 3238
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>Centre for History in Public Health
><http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history/>http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history/
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