Public health by Dr Denise Amos

Table of disease notification data for Nottingham covering the years 1878-1896 published in the Medical Officer for Health's annual report for 1896.

Table of disease notification data for Nottingham covering the years 1878-1896 published in the Medical Officer for Health's annual report for 1896.

Printed

Primary

Ministry of Health, Local Authority files (HLG), Ministry of Health papers (MH 56), MOH , public health survey of Nottingham (MH 66). Public Record Offfice.

Nottingham Corporation minutes – Health (CAHE), Nottingham Corporation minutes – Housing (CATC). Nottingham Corporation minutes (CACM/57) Markets and fairs. Sanitary conditions in Arnold and Carlton Urban District Councils, West Bridgford Urban District and Basford Rural Districts, 1915 (CA/Enq/1920/128). Nottinghamshire Archives Office.

Parliamentary papers Annual Report of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Health Board – supplement to Report. Nottinghamshire Local Studies / Nottingham University Library.

Annual reports of the Sanitary Committee for Nottingham 1850-1870. Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Nottingham 1872-1939. Nottinghamshire Local Studies / Nottinghamshire Archives Office.

Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health for Nottinghamshire

Nottingham General Hospital papers. Nottingham University Library, East Midlands Collection.

Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Basford Rural District Council 1875, 1880-1881, 1889-1901. Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Bridgford Urban District Council 1908-1911. West Bridgford Library

Report of the Housing Committee on measures required for improvements to Narrow Marsh (1882).

Report on the sanitary Conditions of the Borough of Nottingham by Edward Seaton (1873).

A review of the progress of the housing scheme in Nottingham under the various Housing and Town  planning Act  by T C Howitt (1928). Nottinghamshire Local Studies.

City of Nottingham – Reports presented to the Council – Reports of the Housing Committee and the Health Committee 1870-1939. Nottinghamshire Archives Office.

Various newspapers carry reports regarding Public Health issues, such as Nottingham Daily Express, Nottingham Daily Guardian, Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham Guardian and Nottingham Journal. Unfortunately they are not indexed and it is a case of sifting through them. Nottinghamshire Local Studies.

Medical Record Series (MRB) – collection of books from the Medico-Churical Society. Nottingham University Library.

Secondary

Denise Amos, Working-class diet and health in Nottingham, 1850-1939. (2000) PhD thesis. Nottinghamshire Local Studies / Nottingham University Library.

Denise Amos, Nottingham’s health pioneer: Dr Phillip Boobbyer. Nottinghamshire Historian, 69, Autumn/Winter 2002.

B Arblaster, Health services in Nottingham and the provision for women 1860-1940, MA Nottingham (1985).

Griffin, C. P. 'Public Health in the East Midlands, 1860-1900: The Use of the Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board', BLH-EMR, 11 (1976), 7-14. Nt, passim.

Lees, S. and McGregor, P. 90 Years of Ambulances in and Around Nottingham: A Glance Backwards Into Our Own Ambulance History. Nottingham Ambulance Historical Research, 1993. 51 p. [Mainly pictorial.]

Oldfield, G. 'The Fight for Public Health: The Work of the Basford Rural Sanitary Authority, 1874-1894', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 79 (1975), [84]-95, ill.

Oldfield, G. 'Privies and Pigsties', Nottinghamshire Historian, 50 (1993), 15-17, ill. In Leake Rural District.

Walker, L. M. Heart to Heart, Being the True Story of a Retired Nurse and Midwife. Nottingham Duprint Service, 1971. 95 p., ill.

Walker, M. 'The 1832 Cholera Epidemic in the East Midlands', East Midlands History 1/2 (1991-1992), 7-14, ill.  Nt, passim

Terry Fry, ‘The General Lunatic Asylum of Nottingham, 1812-1902’, B.A. Dissertation 1996 and ‘The General Lunatic Asylum of Nottingham, 1812-1902’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 102, (1998).

David Lowe and Paul Swift, The People’s Hospital, 1903-2003. Nottingham City Hospital Centenary Publication, 2003.

James Macfie, Bagthorpe to the City – Story of a Nottingham Hospital.

John Bittiner and David Lowe, Nottingham General Hospital.

J R A Mitchell, Nottingham’s Hospitals.

University of Nottingham, Public Health and Housing in Early Victorian Nottingham. University of Nottingham Manuscripts Department Teaching Unit 3, 1975.