"Health for all" : the origins of the National Health Service, 1848-1948 a fortieth anniversary retrospect catalogue of an exhibition held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 7 June to 2 September 1988 / Lindsay Granshaw.

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1988
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    Services. Report. Cmd. 6604. London: HMSO, 1942. Wellcome Institute Library, London. Beveridge was asked to survey social insurance and allied services. He took his commission far beyond that, and urged radical reform including both comprehensive social security and a national health service. The Report came out in his name, to distance the Government from it. 3. Social Insurance and Allied Services. The Beveridge Report in Brief. London: HMSO, 1942. Trades Union Congress Library. HD 7165. Official summary of the Beveridge Report. There was great demand for such summaries. 4. News Chronicle and The Star. Guide to the Beveridge plan for social security; the scheme simply explained. London: News Chronicle and Star Publications, 1942. Trades Union Congress Library. HD 7165. Popular summary. 5. Joan Simeon Clarke. Unless we plan now: social security. Handbooks for Discussion Groups, No. 14. London: Published for the Association for Education in Citizenship by the English Universities Press, [1943]. Trades Union Congress Library. HD 7165. This pamphlet emphasises that early planning was required: 'Defeat of Hitlerism is necessary so that there may be freedom', Clarke quoted from Franklin D. Roosevelt, 'but this war, like the last war, will produce nothing but destruction unless we prepare for the future now, unless we plan now for the better world we mean to build'. 6. J. Smyth. Social security. Post War Discussion Pamphlets. No. 1. London: Odhams Press, 1944. Trades Union Congress Library. HD 7165. Produced in 1944, this was one of a series of 'post war discussion pamphlets'. 7. Joan S. Clarke and Laurence E. Coward, compilers. Beveridge quiz. Fabian Special No. 5. London: Fabian Publications, 1943. Trades Union Congress Library. HD 7165. In the form of a quiz, this pamphlet sought to familiarise people with the contents of the Beveridge Report. 8. British Institute of Public Opinion. The Beveridge Report and the public. What Britain thinks of the Beveridge Report as shown by a Gallup Poll by the British Institute of Public Opinion. London: News Chronicle and British Institute of Public Opinion. 1942. Trades Union Congress Library. HD 7165. A Gallup Poll of public opinion discovered the astonishing fact that 95 per cent of the public had heard about the Beveridge Report. Greatest interest was found in the Report among the poor, but there was general approval of it, and 'overwhelming agreement' that it should be put into effect, although scepticism about whether it would be. Such interest and knowledge was quite astounding given the normal level of interest in government reports. 9. 'British democracy wants my plan and what British democracy wants, it will get.1 'Sir William Beveridge talks to the Social Security League. Edward Hulton gives a party at his house, where Members of Parliament, peers, journalists, social workers and others meet, talk and ask questions. Many of them are members of the Social Security League, founded to press for the adoption of the report. Mrs Barbara Wootton, the League's chairman, keeps order among a crowded and eager audience.' Picture Post, 7 August 1943. BBC Hulton Picture Library. Beveridge was a fierce advocate of social security and never lost an opportunity to explain his proposals. 10. David Low. 'Direct-hit job.' Photograph of cartoon. Evening Standard, 2 August 1943. Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature. Canterbury. DL 2049. Beveridge was seen to devastate old vested interests. 11. David Low. 'Right turn.' Photograph of cartoon. Evening Standard, 3 December 1942. Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, Canterbury. DL 1950. Such cartoons assisted in the widespread diffusion of information about the Beveridge Report. 12. Brian Thompson. M.D. A letter to a doctor. Fabian Letter, No. 6. London: [19421. Fabian Society. The Fabian Society brought out a series of pamphlets on reconstruction in health. 13. R.B. Thomas. The health services: 1. Maternity and child welfare. The school medical service. The tuberculosis service. Fabian Society, Research Series No. 49. London: Fabian Society and Victor Gollancz, [May 1940]. Fabian Society. 14. Somerville Hastings. The health services: 2. The hospital services. Fabian Society, Research Series No. 59. London: Fabian Society and Victor Gollancz, [December 1941], Fabian Society. Somerville Hastings, a prominent member of the Socialist Medical Association, had long advocated a health service. 15. David Low. 'There's a war on. I hear our gallant ally on the western front is about to take an important town called Beveridge.' Photograph of cartoon. Evening Standard, 18 February 1943. Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, Canterbury. DL 1981. Cartoon illustrating mixed feelings towards the Beveridge Report among the establishment. 16. David Low. 'Dammit, young man, we mustn't put the cart before the horse!' Photograph of cartoon. Evening Standard, 26 June 1944. Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, Canterbury. DL 2186. Cartoon illustrating the mixed reactions to the Beveridge Report. 17. Joe Lee. 'Not so much of that cradle to the grave stuff, young 'Erbert. Grandpa's sensitive'. Photograph of cartoon. Evening News, [5 October 1944]. Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, Canterbury. Lee 5650. Cartoon illustrating the wide-ranging nature of the Beveridge Report.