General Introduction

Medical Care and Prevention:		Excerpts from Official Reports:
The Prevention of Infectious Diseases (water and sewage)		The Hereford Improvement Act,1854
Folk Remedies and Tonics		Report to the General Board of Health 1853.
Institutional Care:		Mental Illness:
Hospitals in Herefordshire		Treatment of Insanity in the 19th Century
The Dispensary		The Hereford Lunatic Asylum
Medical Relief in the Workhouse		Hereford County and City Asylum at Burghill
Pregnant Ladies	The Old Dispensary © Simon van de Put	Memories of staff and patients at Burghill Asylum