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Small Town Ways And Large Town Problems -- Famine, Fever, Childbirth And The Workhouse -- Medical Charities In The Industrial City: Manchester, 1815-34 -- Medical Charity And The Industrial Revolution In The Textile Towns -- Medicine Without Charity: Economism, Medical Services And The New Poor Law -- Civic Show Or Healing Environments: Manchester Hospitals In Mid-century -- Paternalism And The Hospitals Of The Cotton Towns -- Infectious Diseases And Hospitals, 1860-1910 -- Sciences, Specialists And Capital: The Modernisation Of Manchester Hospitals -- Hospitals And Welfare: Paupers, Consumptives, Mothers And Children -- Pattern Of Hospital Services In The 1930s -- Manchester Joint Hospitals Advisory Board -- Hospital Service And The Second World War: Actualities And Plans -- Ministry Surveys And Plans, 1942-5 -- Bevan And The New National Health Service. John V. Pickstone. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 353-360.