Illness at the Inn
F.B. Smith, 4 August 1983
Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain
by Anthony Wohl.
Dent, 440 pp., £17.50, May 1983,0 460 04252 1 Show More
by Anthony Wohl.
Dent, 440 pp., £17.50, May 1983,
“... crass, stingy aldermen. Traditional medical history centres on the measurable mortality of adults: Wohl devotes a long second chapter to infants, by far the most vulnerable part of the population, but commonly neglected because their deaths are less surely reported and other evidence about their lives and health is patchy, indirect and often ... ”