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Author(s): Boulton J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Family and Community History
Year: 2007
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Pages: 127-151
ISSN (print): 1463-1180
ISSN (electronic): 1751-3812
Publisher: Maney Publishing
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175138107x234413
DOI: 10.1179/175138107x234413
Notes: This is a new piece, essentially a companion piece to the joint chapter with Schwarz in the King and volume. It examines the little studied world of the London parish nurse, and argues that before the building of workhouses, such individuals were often running relatively large and multi-functional nursing homes as an integral part of the parish poor relief system. The function and responsibilities of parish nurses seems to have been dramatically curtailed by the advent of workhouses. It was thus in the eighteeenth century that the parish nurse came to be associated almost exclusively with child-care. The article, which will form of a special issue on the subject in the journal Family and Community History, uncovers what seems to have been a narrowing of function and a loss of independence. After the arrival of workhouses, nursing of the sick and ill by women increasingly seems to have taken place within institutions rather than outside it.
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