Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939

In the middle of the eighteenth century, hospitals were unfamiliar institutions to the inhabitants of most English towns and cities. As early as the late nineteenth century, however, hospitals had become central to both the provision of health care and me. Introduction : History of the Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939 -- 1. Birmingham's First Voluntary Hospital -- 2. Optic and Orthopaedic Charities : Birmingham's First Specialist Hospitals -- 3. Birmingham School of Medicine and the First Provincial Teaching Hospital -- 4. Mid-Victorian Specialties : Hospitals for Women, Children and the Deaf -- 5. Importance of Good Teeth and Skin -- 6. Late Nineteenth-Century Reorganisation : The Associated Teaching Hospitals -- 7. Reconstruction Delayed : The Development of the Teaching Hospitals, 1900-1919 -- 8. University of Birmingham Medical School -- 9. Hospitals in the Interwar Period -- 10. Modernising Medical Education in the Midlands -- Appendix I : Hospital Locations -- Appendix II : Patient Numbers at the Hospitals, 1780-1939