Range of public services provided by the government, private, and non-profit organisations

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Housing & social work services : housing services for people with HIV / Southwark Council.

Positive choices : choix positifs : pour les personnes affectées par le VIH et le SIDA / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

The destitute wait for welfare assistance; an old man is told by an official that he will have to come back in eight days. Colour reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

Tiles found in the new wards for homeless poor, Whitechapel, 1866. Watercolour painting.

Saint John of God. Etching by F. Garzoli after F. Bigioli after F. Della Valle.

The social servant in the making : a review of the provision of training for the social services / by Elizabeth Macadam.

Social work : an outline for the intending student / by Noel Timms.

Drug-related social work in street agencies : a study by the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence / Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South.

Jacobsen of Carlsberg : brewer and philanthropist / by Kristof Glamann ; translated by Geoffrey French.

William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine / Sheonagh M.K. Martin.

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Social service

Images from the collections

Images about Social service

Works from the collections

The social servant in the making : a review of the provision of training for the social services / by Elizabeth Macadam.

Social work : an outline for the intending student / by Noel Timms.

Drug-related social work in street agencies : a study by the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence / Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South.

Jacobsen of Carlsberg : brewer and philanthropist / by Kristof Glamann ; translated by Geoffrey French.

William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine / Sheonagh M.K. Martin.

Social service

Images from the collections

Images about Social service

Works from the collections

The social servant in the making : a review of the provision of training for the social services / by Elizabeth Macadam.

Social work : an outline for the intending student / by Noel Timms.

Drug-related social work in street agencies : a study by the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence / Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South.

Jacobsen of Carlsberg : brewer and philanthropist / by Kristof Glamann ; translated by Geoffrey French.

William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine / Sheonagh M.K. Martin.

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