authority.

4.

The municipal hospital and the isolation of acute infectious diseases.

5.

The epidemiology of infected food and the limits of sanitary jurisdiction.

6.

Tuberculosis: Public policy and epidemiology --

pt. II.

Newsholme at the Local Government Board.

7.

Poverty, fitness, and the Poor Law.

8.

The Local Government Board and the nation's health policy.

9.

Launching a national tuberculosis program.

10.

The Great War and the public health enterprise.

The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed a significant improvement in the health of the British people due in no small part to an unprecedented expansion of preventive and therapeutic services offered by the state through its local authorities. Behind the expansion in public services were profound changes in attitudes toward poverty and dependency and toward the political and cultural significance of health; changes in social policy and administration; and changes in the understanding of the causes of disease. This book examines the era through the ideas and experiences of Sir Arthur Newsholme, the leading public health authority in the Britain of his day.