LANGDON-DAVIES, JOHN. - Westminster Hospital . Two Centuries of Voluntary Service. 1719-1948.

London: John Murray, 1952. 1st edition. "The Westminster was the first of the voluntary hospitals that was founded as such and not derived from a religious institution..Mr Langdon-Davies gives a gripping account of the development of hosptial work but he has enlarged his scope to give a remarkable picture of what conditions were in Westminster in the 18th and earlier 19th centuries, a squalor and lack of hygiene and sanitary science which now seem unbelievable." Pp.xiv/274, folding colour frontispiece + colour armorial bearings and further colour plate + 18 black & white plates, spotting to closed page edges (occasionally encroaching onto margins), owner's name to front free endpaper. Blue cloth with fading to edges, illustrated wrap-around dustwrapper is rubbed with edge tears and small losses. Good/Good..

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