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• Hospitals -- England -- Early works to 1800

• An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe : with various papers relative to the plague : together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals, and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed by William Eyres :, 1789), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A true report of the great costs and charges of the five hospitals in the City of London, under the care of the Lord Mayor, communalty, and citizens of London in the maintenance of their great number of poore this present yeare 1647. as followeth. ([London : s.n., 1647]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true report of the great costs and charges of the five hospitals in the City of London, under the care of the Lord Mayor, communalty and citizens of London in the maintenance of their great number of poore this present yeare 1648. as followeth: ([London : s.n., 1648]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true report of the great costs and charges of the five hospitals in the City of London under the care of the Lord Mayor, communalty and citizens of London, in the maintenance of their great number of poore this present yeare 1649. as followeth. ([London : s.n., 1649]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true report of the great costs and charges of the foure hospitals in the City of London in the maintenance of their great number of poore this present yeare, 1645, as followeth. ([London : s.n., 1645]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true report of the great costs and charges of the foure hospitals, in the city of London in the maintenance of their great number of poore, this present yeare, 1644, as followeth. ([London : s.n., 1644]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The 11th day of Aprill, 1653. A true report of the great costs and charges of the five hospitals in the City of London under the care of the lord mayor, commonalty and citizens of London in the maintaining of a very great number of poore the yeare last past. ([London : s.n., 1653]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The 10th day of Aprill 1655. A true report of the great number of poor children, and other poor people maintained in the severall hospitals by the pious care of the Lord Mayor, commonalty and citizens of the city of London. ([London : s.n., 1655]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Three ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, viz. I. An ordinance for freeing and discharging of all rents and revenues (belonging to the Hospitals of St. Bartholomew, Bridewell, St. Thomas and Bethlem) from any assessments, taxes and charges whatsoever. II. An ordinance for establishing a new seal for the County Palatine of Lancaster. III. An ordinance for ordaining ministers in the County of Lancaster. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. (Printed at London : for Edw. Husbands, Febr. 11. 1644. [i.e. 1645]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The prevention of poverty, by beneficial clubs : with preliminary observations upon houses of industry, and the poor laws (Printed for Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Broster, Chester, 1796), by Edward Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals for Building, in Every County, a Working-Alms-House or Hospital: as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloth, by Richard Haines (Gutenberg ebook)

• England's weal & prosperity proposed: or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county, for the speedy promoting of industry and the woollen manufactory, shewing how the wealth of the nation may be encreased, many hundred thousand pounds per annum. And also that many thousand persons may be so reformed, to their own and the whole kingdoms present and future wealth and glory, that there may no more be a begger bred up in the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, and presented to the honourable House of Commons. By R. Haines. To which is added A model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) intended to have been presented to the last Parliament. Pursuant to a breviate of proposals for the promoting of industry, and speedy restoring the woollen manufactory, by him formerly published. ([London : s.n., 1680]), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A model of government for the good of the poor, and the wealth of the nation with such a method and inspection that frauds, corruption in officers, abuses to the poor, ill administration of materials, &c. therein may be prevented : the stock rais'd and preserved, all poor people and their children for ever comfortably provided for, all idle hands employed, all oppressed parishes eased, all beggars and vagrants for the future restrained, poor prisoners for debt relieved and malefactors reclaimed, to their own comfort, God's glory and the kingdoms wealth and honour : humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, viz. His Most Excellent Majesty and both houses of Parliament / by R. Haines ... (London : Printed for D.M., 1678), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ordinances made by Sir William Cecill Knight of the Order of the Garter, Baron of Burghley, for the order and gouernement of xiij. poore men, whereof one to be the warden of the hospitall at Stanford Baron in the countie of Northampton, to remaine in a chest in a chamber in the sayd hospitall, locked vp in a chest with two seuerall locks, the keyes whereof to be in the custodie of the Vicar of S. Martins and the bailiffe of the manour. xx. Augusti Anno xxxix. Elizabethae Reginæ, & anno domini 1597. ([London : Deputies of C. Barker, 1597]), by William Cecil Burghley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A method of government for such publick working alms-houses as may be erected in every county for bringing all idle hands to industry As the best known expedient for restoring and advancing the woollen manufacture. Humbly offered to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and both Houses of Parliament. By R. Haines with allowance. (London : printed for Langley Curtis on Ludgate-hill, 1679), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An act for the continuance and maintenance of the school and alms-houses of Westminster. (Printed by John Field for Edward Husband ..., 1649), by England and Wales, Edward Husband, John Field, and Henry Scobell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tuesday, September 20. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that all masters and governors of hospitals be, and are hereby prohibited to grant or renew any leases of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging unto any of the said respective hospitals, until this House take further order (London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament. And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleetstreet, over against Dunstans Church, 1659), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Statutes. (Edinburgh : printed by order of the Magistrates, Ministers, and Council of George Heriot's Hospital, Anno Dom. 1696), by George Heriot's Hospital (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• True and unshaken loyalty asserted that the right of election of all persons to places of trust, in all His Majesties hospitals in the City of London, is inherent in the King, demonstrated; and self-interest plainly detected. Humbly presented to the serious consideration of all the present governnours of His Majesties said hospitals. By a lover of his King and country. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year. 1684), by A lover of his King and country (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the Lords Justices, a proclamation. Tho. Cantuar. J. Sommers C.S. Pembroke C.P.S. Shrewsbury. Whereas by an Act made the last session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the encrease and encouragement of seamen. It was, amongst other things, enacted, that all and every able mariner, seaman, waterman, fisherman, ... (London : Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd; printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1696), by England and Wales. Lords Justices (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Grand Committee for Greenwich Hospital settled at a meeting of the Lords and other the Commissioners at Guildhall, December 16, 1695. ([S.l. : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Two anthems, to be performed in St. Martin's Church, on the anniversary-meeting, of the governours of the Leicester Infirmary. (s.n., in the 1770s), by William Boyce, Giacomo Carissimi, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), England) St. Martin's Church (Leicester, and England) Leicester-Infirmary (Leicester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthem to be performed in St. Martin's Church, on the anniversary meeting, of the governours of the Leicester Infirmary : taken out of the 106th Psalm, verses 1, 2, 4, 46. Set to music by Mr. Henry Purcell, organist and composer to King James II and King William III. (s.n., 1780), by Henry Purcell, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), England) St. Martin's Church (Leicester, and England) Leicester-Infirmary (Leicester (page images at HathiTrust)

• An answer to several letters written by Scotish gentlemen in His Majesties dominions beyond the seas to the master & governors of the Scotish Corporation and Hospital in London, giving a true account of the erection of the said company, and its progress from the year 1664, to 1677, for the satisfaction of such as desire that information. ([London? : s.n., ca. 1677]), by John Renney and Scottish Corporation in London (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The mediaeval hospitals of England (Methuen, 1909), by Rotha Mary Clay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The medical institutions of the United Kingdom : a history exemplifying the evils of over-legislation. (Churchill, 1870), by John Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convalescent care in Great Britain (The University of Chicago press, 1935), by Elizabeth Greene Gardiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country, (Rogers prize essay, 1926) (H. Milford, 1929), by Hugh James McCurrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some early and later houses of pity (G. Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1926), by John Morrison Hobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monasticon anglicanum; a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in any manner connected with religious houses in England. Together with a particular account of their respective foundations, grants, and donations, and a full statement of their possessions, as well temporal as spiritual. (Bohn, 1846), by William Dugdale, Richard C. Taylor, Bulkeley Bandinel, Henry Ellis, John Caley, John Stevens, and Roger Dodsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorandum of a late visit to some of the principal hospitals, prisons, &c. in France, Scotland, and England. Embraced in a letter to the Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. (E. G. Dorsey, Printer, 1840), by Frederick A. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prevention of epidemics and the construction and management of isolation hospitals. (P. Blakiston, 1895), by Roger McNeill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude sur les hôpitaux d'isolement en Angleterre (Baillière, 1886), by Auguste Lutaud and Walter Douglas Hogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medieval hospitals of England (Frank Cass & Co., 1966), by Rotha Mary Clay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pensions for hospital officers and staffs Report of a Sub-committee of the Executive Committee of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London ... (C. & E. Layton [etc., 1919), by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Henry Lennox Hopkinson, and W. J. H. Whittall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handy book of cottage hospitals. (Hamilton, Adams, 1870), by Horace Swete (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mediæval Hospitals of England, by Rotha Mary Clay, ed. by J. Charles Cox, contrib. by G. F. Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• The profitable intelligencer,: communicating his knowledge for the generall good of the common-wealth and all posterity. Containing many rare secrets and experiments (having reference to a larger book) which being well observed, and industriously practised, according to the directions therein by all the inhabitants of England in generall, will recover the wealth of the kingdom now so miserably wasted by these unnaturall wars, and make it the most flourishing countrey in the world, and cause more naked to be clothed, more hungry to be fed, more poore virgins to be preferred in marriage, more sick to be healed, then Suttons Hospitall the Savoy, and all the hospitals and liberall gifts in England have ever performed, by certain wayes which require no charge nor labour, but what every active person shall be double payed for. A copie of the letter, wherein the discourse entituled, Mercurius Lætificans, was sent enclosed to the authors most worthy, and highly honoured friend, Mr. Samuel Hartlib. ([London?] : Printed according to order. For T. U. at the Bible in Woodstreet, [1644]), by Gabriel Plattes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sanitary statistics of native colonial schools and hospitals ([s.n.], 1863), by Florence Nightingale and Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe : with various papers relative to the plague, together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals, and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for J. Johnson, D. Dilly, and T. Cadell, 1791), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on hospitals : being two papers read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Liverpool, in October, 1858 : with evidence given to the Royal Commissioners on the state of the army in 1857 (J.W. Parker, 1859), by Florence Nightingale and National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
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• An inquiry into the workhouse system and the law of maintenance in agricultural districts. (For J. Hatchard and Son, London, 1820), by C. D. Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, its establishment and regulations : with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view (Printed by J. and W. Eddowes, 1795), by Isaac Wood and John Howlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor; setting forth the rules by which they are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected. As also of several charity-schools for promoting work, and labour. (J. Downing, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor : setting forth rules by which theu are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected, as also of several charity schools for promoting work, and labor. (J. Downing, 1732) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della carità ospitaliera in Toscana : studi documentati e proposte col confronto dei sistemi altrove in uso e specialmente nelle altre provincie d'Italia, nella Francia e nella inghilterra. (F. Bencini, 1864), by Ottavio Andreucci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of workhouse visiting and management during twenty-five years (C.K. Paul, 1880), by Louisa Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workhouses and pauperism and women's work in the administration of the poor law. (Methuen & co., 1898), by Louisa Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bread for the poor, or, Observations upon certain proposals lately offered to the Kings Majesty and both Houses of Parliament with some additional considerations tending to inriching of the nation ... : whereby all poor people, women and children from five years old may be comfortably employ'd to get their own livings, beggars and vagrants restrain'd, the parish charges for the poor lightned, and consequently your lands improved, rents raised ... and tradesmen encouraged, and many hundred thousand pounds a year kept at home which now goes out of the kingdom to French and other forraign commodities / by Philo-Anglicus. (London : Printed for D.M., 1678), by Philo-Anglicus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Chapters on the history of the insane in the British isles (K. Paul, Trench & co., 1882), by Daniel Hack Tuke (page images at HathiTrust)

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