POOR-LAW MEDICAL INSPECTORS.

Medical charities, medical politics: the Irish dispensary system and the poor law, 1836–1872

This volume marks a welcome addition to published research on the establishment of a system of state medicine in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The author's objective is to explore the significance of the Medical Charities Act, 1851, and to analyse its effect on medical relief and epidemic control in Ireland up to the conversion of the Poor Law Commission to the Local Govemment Board in...

A 'Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy'? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland's parochial asylums.

Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...

Sanitary Inspectors in Madras

Sir,?In your issue of 12th September 1904, under the heading of "Reviews," you notice a new Medical Journal published in Madras, and repeat unwittingly a very gross misstatement in the leading article of its first issue, which is likely to damage the status of a hard-working body of men in this Presidency, known as Certificated Sanitary Inspectors? and not 0. S. I.'s as the author, with stale a...

Inspectors of Lunacy for Scotland

Mobile Reporting: Supporting Road Inspectors

This paper reports design implications based on an ethnographic study of an occupational group at the Swedish National Road Administration-Production. One specific condition of the road inspectors work situation is their ongoing movement while conducting their work, this factor do also limit their possibilities to perform a decent work. Findings from the empirical fieldwork indicate that the sy...