Physical description

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Both book cover and dustjacket have a blue background with title and author's name printed in white on front and spine. An illustration of an entrance to a building is printed in white on the front of both book and dust jacket

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At the top of the front-end page is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by" Marjorie Connor (handwritten in black ink) The previous catalogue number is also handwritten in black ink on this sticker. Inside front cover the name M R Rojo is handwritten in blue ink

Summary

A history of British hospitals of the status of health, health care and the development of hospitals in Britain from the Middle Ages, up to the beginnings of the National Health Service in 1948