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Welfare Systems and the Parish Nurse in Early Modern London, 1650-1725

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Jeremy Boulton

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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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