Article ID: CBB001202086

Eggs, Rags and Whist Drives: Popular Munificence and the Development of Provincial Medical Voluntarism between the Wars (2013)

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Drawing on hospital reports, committee minutes and the local press, this article examines the changing landscape of urban civic culture and challenges the pessimistic accounts of charitable financial support for voluntary hospitals in inter-war England. Through case studies of hospitals in four of the largest cities in the country, it assesses the extent to which voluntary resources of time and money continued to underpin day-to-day institutional income, stimulate the development of the hospitals' estates and investments, and enable hospitals to cut costs through the receipt of gifts in kind. It argues that by broadening the bases of charitable income, hospitals were freed from their dependence on the wealthy thus ensuring their transformation to modern community resources for all.

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Authors & Contributors
Levene, Alysa
Fiorilli, Olivia
Scrimgeour, David
Waddington, Keir
Stewart, John
Siena, Kevin P.
Concepts
Medicine and society
Public health
Medicine and culture
Hospitals and clinics
Health care
Social class
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Italy
Canada
Ireland
Edinburgh
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Rockefeller Foundation
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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