The Poor Law report of 1909 : a summary explaining the defects of the present system and the principal recommendations of the Commission, so far as relates to England and Wales / by Helen Bosanquet.
- Helen Bosanquet
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Poor Law report of 1909 : a summary explaining the defects of the present system and the principal recommendations of the Commission, so far as relates to England and Wales / by Helen Bosanquet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![persons whose earnings per family are under 20s. a week. At Bosmere and Claydon a very great many belong to medical clubs outside the county club. In the neighbourhood of Bury St. Edmunds, says Dr. Stork : “ ‘There is only one [doctor] that I can think of who has not got a private medical club of his own.’ “ In towns also medical clubs are very common, and in certain districts, e.g. South Wales, the ‘ works’ clubs ’ include almost the whole of the male working population, while medical clubs provide for the remainder. In seven towns— Coventry, Eastbourne, Hartlepool, Kidderminster, Norwich, Southampton, and Taunton—a ‘public medical service ’ has been organised amongst the doctors for treating the poorer working class on a provident basis.” The fact that provision of this kind for medical assistance is found amongst the wage-earners of all grades in some places, makes it the more remark- able that in others it fails almost entirely. There can be little doubt that this is due to the competi- tion of other agencies. Of the ease with which medical relief can be obtained through the Poor Law we have already spoken. Its effect is illus- trated by the following statement from a medical officer :](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28060696_0240.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
