Volume 3

The state and the doctor / by Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

  • Webb, Sidney, 1859-1947.
Date:
1910
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The state and the doctor / by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or “ State Doctors,” in the Poor Law Medical Service or in the Public Health Department, from the youngest recruit to those of highest official rank, we owe much more than their formal evidence; and for what they have so courteously done for us, we must content ourselves with these general thanks. We must, however, specially acknowledge the expert help afforded in the earlier part of the inquiry by Miss Louisa Woodcock (Somerville College, Oxford), M.A. (Trinity College, Dublin), M.D., B.S. (London), Physician to Out-patients’ Department (late Patho¬ logist), New Hospital for Women, and Physician to the Canning Town Medical Mission. In another way, the book owes much to the labours of Miss M. E. Bulkley, B.Sc. (Econ.), of the London School of Economics and Political Science. We cannot refrain from adding, at the risk of seeming impertinence, that, from one end of the Kingdom to the other, we have been impressed with the vast amount of laborious, unrecognised, and very ill-paid service that, out of the dictates of humanity which form so honourable a tradition of the medical profession, is being rendered to the poor by the D.M.O. and the M.O.H., as well as by the private practitioner himself, who is often in many ways as much of a public servant as his brethren bearing official titles. Such ungrudging and devoted service to the community merits a less invidious method of remuneration and a more adequate reward. But it deserves more than this. We owe it to the doctors