Be well!
Jewish health and welfare in Glasgow, 1860-1914
by Kenneth E. Collins
This book describes the heallth issues in the Jewish immigrant community in Glasgow around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. It looks at the Jewish community's own provision of welfare and health care while focussing on such areas as mental health and child welfare. Other subjects including the Jews and trachoma as they were wrongly accused of bringing trachoma into Britain as part of the campaign against Jewish immigration at the time of the Aliens Act of 1905. A final chapter looks at Christian attempts to evangelise Glasgow's Jews using free health care as a bait.
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Health and hygiene, History, Immigrants, Jews, Mental health, Social conditions, Public health, LifestylesPlaces
Glasgow, Glasgow (Scotland), ScotlandTimes
1860-1920, 19th centuryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Be well!: Jewish health and welfare in Glasgow, 1860-1914
2001, Tuckwell Press
in English
1862321299 9781862321298
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