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The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919from innovation to stagnation /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919by Nick Evans.
Reminder of title:	from innovation to stagnation /
Author:	Evans, Nick.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xiii, 296 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Medical policyHistory19th century.Great Britain
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06380-9
ISBN:	9783032063809$q(electronic bk.)

The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919from innovation to stagnation /
Evans, Nick.

The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919from innovation to stagnation /[electronic resource] :by Nick Evans. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xiii, 296 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. Finding a Role -- 3. Science and strategy: innovation and influence, 1880-1891 -- 4. The growth of international influence, 1892-1899 -- 5. Public health and the 'crisis' in Edwardian government, 1900-1908 -- 6. A new approach: challenges and opportunities in a changing world, 1908-1919 -- 7. Conclusion.

This book explores the Local Government Board (LGB) Medical Department's work, successes, and failures throughout its forty-eight-year life and assesses its influence on public health administration in England and Wales. Earlier generations of public health historians have substantially dismissed the Department as being too small to be effective and too lacking in authority to have an impact. More recently a growing number of scholars have challenged this view. This book continues this reappraisal, identifying the influence of the Department on Victorian and Edwardian epidemiology and public health management and its success in protecting Britain from epidemic and endemic infectious disease in a pre-antibiotic era. The Medical Department's small team of doctors provided expertise, encouragement, leadership, and challenge in the management of public health and the struggle against infectious disease in Britain and beyond. Blending a chronological approach with a thematic focus in each chapter to chart the evolution of the LGB Medical Department, the author uses case studies of selected medical inspections to explore the Department's work at various stages in its life. Analysing both national and local archive materials to explore the Medical Department's work and influence in its contemporary contexts, this book offers fresh insights into the relationships between central and local government as well as revealing the significant impact of its expert staff on the development of public health administration in England and Wales. Nick Evans is an independent historian. He studied at Birkbeck, University of London.

ISBN: 9783032063809$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-06380-9doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

1004907
Great Britain.
Local Government Board.--History--19th century.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1004908
Medical policy
--History--Great Britain--19th century.

LC Class. No.: RA395.G7

Dewey Class. No.: 353.6094109034

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