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Poor Law Medical Officers Association
The Poor Law Medical Officers Association was formed in 1868 by a merger of the Poor Law Medical Reform Association and the Association of Metropolitan Workhouse Medical Officers. Joseph Rogers (physician), Joseph Rogers was the founder and for some time president. See also * Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 * Medical officer of health References {{authority control Poor law infirmaries Medical associations based in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Law Medical Reform Association
The Poor Law Medical Reform Association was founded by Dr. Richard Griffin, the medical officer of the Weymouth Poor law union in 1853. It merged with the Convention of Poor Law Medical Officers in 1856. In 1868 it merged with the Association of Metropolitan Workhouse Medical Officers to create the Poor Law Medical Officers Association. In 1859 it produced a pamphlet "The Grievances of the Poor-Law Medical Officers." Griffin, as Chairman of the Association, was a vigorous lobbyist in the campaign which led up to the Metropolitan Poor Act 1867. See also *Opposition to the English Poor Laws Mr. Canning was once asked by Mr. Tierney why he did not touch the Poor Law? To which question Mr. Canning replied:—'' "Why do not Governments decide offhand a question growing out of the usages of centuries—interwoven with the habits, and deep ... References {{authority control Poor law infirmaries Medical associations based in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Metropolitan Workhouse Medical Officers
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Joseph Rogers (physician)
Joseph Rogers (1821–1889) was an English physician and campaigning medical officer. Life The elder brother of Thorold Rogers, he was born at West Meon, Hampshire. For 40 years Rogers promoted reform in the administration of the Poor Law. Beginning a medical practice in London in 1844, he became supernumerary medical officer at St Anne's, Soho, in 1855, on the occasion of an outbreak of cholera. The following year he was appointed medical officer to the Strand workhouse. The conditions in the Strand workhouse had been found very bad by the future reformer Louisa Twining, when she visited in 1853. Rogers had the workhouse master George Catch removed, on the grounds that Catch had delayed calling a doctor for a woman in pain giving birth, to save money. In 1861 Rogers came before the select committee of the House of Commons, speaking on the supply of drugs in workhouse infirmaries, and his views were adopted. Much of the evidence on which Gathorne Hardy relied in pushing for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Poor Act 1867
The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, the first in a series of major reforms that led to the gradual separation of the Poor Law's medical functions from its poor relief functions. It also led to the creation of a separate administrative authority the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The legislation provided that a single Metropolitan Poor Rate would be levied across the Metropolis: this being defined as the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The Poor Law Board (a central government body) was empowered to form the areas of the various parish and poor law unions into districts for the provision of "Asylums for the Sick, Insane, and other Classes of the Poor". An order was signed on 16 May 1867, combining all the parishes and unions in the Metropolis into a single Metropolitan Asylum District "for the reception and relief of the classes of poor persons chargeable to some union or parish in the said district respectively who may be infected w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Officer Of Health
A medical officer of health, also known as a medical health officer, chief health officer, chief public health officer or district medical officer, is the title commonly used for the senior government official of a health department, usually at a municipal, county/district, state/province, or regional level. The post is held by a physician who serves to advise and lead a team of public health professionals such as environmental health officers and public health nurses on matters of public health importance. The equivalent senior health official at the national level is often referred to as the chief medical officer (CMO), although the title varies across countries, for example known as the surgeon general in the United States and the chief public health officer in Canada. Australia The national senior adviser on health matters is known as the ''chief medical officer'', while those at state and territory level are mostly known as the ''chief health officer'' (CHO), with one CMO a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Law Infirmaries
Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income. Poverty can have diverse , , and causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in statistics or economics there are two main measures: '' absolute poverty'' compares income against the amount needed to meet basic personal needs [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
