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Archive File

Health: Mental Health - Stress

1983 - 1988

Press cuttings from The Daily Mail, Financial Times, The Daily Express, The Independent, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Today, The Morning Star a...

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Archive Series

Health

c1976 - 1996

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Archive File

Health

1940-1964

Documents relating to Maurice de Sausmarez's health, including the implications of rheumatic heart disease on his war service and employment, his hospitalisation in March 1957 and return to work at th...

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Archive Sub-series

Health

1978-2021

Reference material from the Women's Aid Library relating to the theme of 'Health'.

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Title: On health

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: On health, praising it as a feature of a simple country life of virtuous

labour, absent from the luxurious excesses of town and court

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Title: A health

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 46

Contents: Jacobite drinking song asserting the claim to the throne of

James Stuart, the Old Pretender, anticipating the happiness of

his coming

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Title: A health

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 46

Contents: Jacobite drinking song, asserting the claim to the throne of

James Stuart, the Old Pretender, and attacking the Hanoverian

succession

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Category: Health

Ada Reece (DF) for details of her husband's work in dealing with epidemics, 6.12.14.

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Category: Health

Capt.J.M.McLachlan (GS). Wartime work as a locum - comes across patient fear of Infirmary - parents prefer to risk child dying at home than send to Infirmary. Letter 277, 25.1.15.

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Category: Health

See Towns, Cities, Regions: Leeds: Item 1. Many "In Memoriam" cards from funerals in the Hunslet area. Many deaths from old age, but also many cases of infant mortality.

Category: Health

W.Smith (GS) Photograph of Smith with his son, aged about 5. The boy was to die during the war as a result of scarlet fever, or another childhood illness.

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Category: Health

C.Pendley (GS) Letter 5.11.18 from his mother refers to "a terrible lot of illness about" - influenza pandemic.

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