Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Chapter 1 1298-1470 - Founding of the town; first houses; highways
• Chapter 2 1470-1750 - Houses; outbreaks of plague; first hospitals
• Chapter 3 1750-1800 - Industrial Revolution; gin drinking; repair and cleansing of streets
• Chapter 4 1800-1835 - Hull and Sculcoates Dispensary; Sculcoates Refuge of the Insane; Hull Borough Lunatic Asylum
• Chapter 5 1835-1850 - Beverley Road Institution; Stoneferry waterworks; public baths and laundry
• Chapter 6 1850-1870 - Local Board of Health; drainage problems; street improvements
• Chapter 7 1870-1885 (i) - Victoria Hospital for Sick Children; fever wards at Hull General Infirmary
• Chapter 8 1870-1885 (ii) - First Medical Officer of Health; zymotic disease
• Chapter 9 1870-1885 (iii) - Scarlatina; extension of Garrison Hospital
• Chapter 10 1885-1898 - Foreign and infectious disease; Hull and Goole Port Sanitary Authority
• Chapter 11 1899-1900 - smallpox - history, vaccination, major outbreak
• Chapter 12 1900-1920 (i) - Hull Crematorium; plague; National Insurance; Radium Fund
• Chapter 13 1900-1920 (ii) - Midwives Act; infant mortality; feeding of infants
• Chapter 14 1900-1920 (iii) - Tuberculosis; notifications; dispensaries; hospital treatment
• Chapter 15 1900-1920 (iv) - Housing conditions; development of suburbs; cellar dwellings
• Chapter 16 1920-1938 (i) - Sanitary inspection - factories and shops, lodging houses, canal boats
• Chapter 17 1920-1938 (ii) - Development of housing estates; insanitary areas; effects of housing shortage
• Chapter 18 1920-1938 (iii) - Midwifery services; ante-natal clinic; appointment of municipal midwife
• Chapter 19 1920-1938 (iv) - Child health services; health visitors; schools for mothers and infant welfare clinics
• Chapter 20 1920-1938 (v) - Influenza outbreaks; Hull Blind Institute; Tilworth Grange Hospital
• Chapter 21 1939-1948 - Preparations for war; evacuation schemes; use of hospitals
• Chapter 22 1948-1974 (i) - New drainage system; development of housing estates
• Chapter 23 1948-1974 (ii) - Clean air; smoke control areas; special problems in industry
• Chapter 24 1948-1974 (iii) - The Welfare State; Leeds Regional Hospital Board
• Chapter 25 1948-1974 (iv) - General Practitioner obstetricians; clinics; midwives
• Chapter 26 1948-1974 (v) - Smallpox vaccination; diphtheria immunisation; tetanus immunisation
• Chapter 27 1948-1974 (vi) - Cancer; mental health services; Scriver testing
• Chapter 28 1948-1974 (vii) - Ambulance services; developments at De la Pole Hospital; closing of Victoria Children's Hospital
• Appendix - Vital Statistics